I don’t know what it is, exactly, but these last few days really seem like summer is done and autumn is just starting. No, it’s not the colder weather we had today… perhaps it’s like Jennifer’s husband said, about the quality of light changing so that it looks like fall.
Actually I think that’s a large part of it. The days are shorter and the sun has been shifting southward again, and the light has a fall quality to it. I can smell it in the air, too. Something crisp. It feels like the harvest season, or at least feels like it should be.
And then school’s starting on Tuesday… both are kids are in this year (first grade and kindergarden). That plays a factor, I’m sure.
So, even though we officially have nearly another month of summer remaining, it seems to me that it is now (informally) the beginning of autumn.
Did everyone remember to bring in or cover their plants tonight?
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Just picked up B from his last day at pre-school 🙁
No more babies in this house 🙂 Where did the time go?
I’m just glad our sucky August is near over.
We had to turn the heat on this morning. Only the bedroom windows were open but the house was at 63 degrees!
Yeah. It’s back to the weenie shrinking temps in the AM. Soon it will be a bugar-freezer out there.
I had to bring in all my Christmas cactuses – cactii? – last night, and I definitely smell fall in the air.
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