It's that time of year, whether we're ready or not. Let's call it "late summer" rather than an early fall, if for no other reason than the trees are still green. The first days of autumn are generally signaled by a few yellow leaves appearing here & there on the northern birch trees, and the profusion of purple fireweed along the roadways.
We've had enough rain this summer to keep the leaves from thinning, so it won't be surprising if those leaves all turn fall colors quickly, rather than otherwise.
I've heard geese only once, so far; I don't want to admit, even to myself, that I haven't seen any seagulls lately. When I worked downtown, only blocks away from Cook Inlet, the disappearance of the gulls was the first sure sign that the weather would be changing. I don't see them as often, the last few years, being situated closer to the mountains than the water.
But there's the slightest change in the air, and the certain knowledge that our summers are rather shorter than winter, so we know the changing of the season won't be long now.
But we can resist it for as long as the trees are green, and the days warm. AccuHunch is calling for an 80% chance of rain today, with a high around 60. So see? winter isn't here. Yet.
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
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You can feel it here too, getting down into the forties nights although it is warmer in the day time. Here the various swallows begin to line up on the power wires getting ready to go.
We could probably do a long point/counterpoint post on this. Our overnight lows are around 75, and most nights it doesn't dip below 80 until after midnight. It will probably be November before an overnight of 45 gets here - if not December.
And while I'm sure you welcome summer as a season, as I greet it with resignation, something to be endured, not cherished. The same feelings your seem to display about the coming of the winter, and as you probably imagine, I greet winter with the same emotions you have for summer.
threecollie, understood.
Graybeard, I like winter; wouldn't live in Alaska, otherwise. But that doesn't mean I'm ready for summer to be over. Ours is so short, and I love the long, long daylight hours.
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