I know! I know!

You really feel that way? Personally, I love autumn, it is my favorite time of year. Taking a walk while a cool wind is blowing and the leaves are falling is a fine thing.

One of the good things about not having a favorite time of year is that I don't have a LEAST favorite time of year, either. I like 'em all about equally, and they all have their good and bad points.

I will agree it's been a damn short summer, though.

It's supposed to be over 100 degrees Farendheit today.

What is this "fall' you speak of? ;-)

It's been hot and stickey so no fall feeling here.

I cringe at reporting this to our fellow mechans in the rest of the country, but, yeah, here in the northwest, the evening and morning air seems to have that fall nip to it.

As you get northwest-ish there's less bright-leaves-falling and more dark-depressing-drizzling. Not enough deciduous trees.

Places that snow in the winter are less depressing (to me) because the snow makes the world bright. Also, you can play in it.

Yeah. As bad as the winter were in Massachusetts, the fall was glorious and the snow was fun.

Yesterday I noticed many freshly fallen leaves. It is damp and cold.

nooooooooo!

I'd rather be layered and hatted, snuggly in covers, than sweating uncontrollably when my hair isn't short enough to hose my head down at every instance.
The days did seem to take a sudden turn to kill away the deathly fireball.
Give me clothing optional, as in on. i heat up quick enough.

It's the dark! I hate the dark!

let there be light! Get a spectrum light!
grow your own! Go on convenient holidays!

*wants it to be an unsquishy spring and crunchy fall*

NO NOT YET

I remain in denial until August. Beach week is still ahead of me.

Only when the calendar page turns will I allow myself to notice the changes...

When I was a camp counselor, this time of year that summer's ending feeling started to set in. We used to play outdoor games like Capture the Flag and innumerable variants after dinner. At the beginning of the summer, the games went until 9:00; but by this week or so, they had to end an hour earlier so we weren't running at breakneak speed through the underbrush in the dark, getting injured. Then, too, the first really cold nights were in August, the blanket nights as opposed to the top-sheet nights.

I love summer and wish it could continue forever. We always think it's going to be so long...perhaps because in childhood, without school, it seemed that way...but it's fleeting.

Embrace the dark. Wander the lamp-lit streets. Bundle for wind. Crunch the snow.

Then, tea.

there is no snow. only darkness.

During winter it's dark when I go to work and dark when I leave work. That's the worst part.

Also, I loathed school, and in August I have this school's starting! dread even though I'm in my 30s.

there is no snow. only darkness.

Then there is no hope. Despair. My flowers weep for you.


Seriously, though, as far as school goes, remember that every semester is a fresh start.

This is what gets me though winter:

Tea, chocolate, and oranges.
A cozy spot to read/work.
Multiple indoor lighting options. (Brighter is not always better.)
A zip-up fleece and wool socks.
Movies on DVD.