Wednesday, September 23, 2015, marks the official end of
summer and start of autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere—the Autumnal
Equinox.
Earlier in September in my little corner of the world
provided a delightful taste of the fall weather to come. That crisp feel in the air with cooler
temperatures replacing the heat and dryer air shoving aside the retched
humidity of summer. That change to cool
dry air brought a renewed vigor, a revived energy to replace the lackluster
feeling resulting from the summer heat and humidity...at least for me. (Do you get the impression that I don't
function well in heat and humidity?)
Just as I love the renewal of life in the spring—bright
green new leaves on the trees, colorful flowers, the awakening of nature from
winter's long hibernation—I also love the change of the leaves to their
brilliant array of fall colors in autumn.
This year we've exceeded our average amount of rainfall, so I'm hoping
for a more colorful autumn than we've had the last couple of years.
I can say with all sincerity that I'm happy to welcome the
end of summer. Oh, yeah…also happy to
welcome the start of fall. But it's
mostly the end of summer's heat and humidity that thrills me. I do have to
admit that the summer of 2015 was definitely milder than the previous two
summers, only a few days of 100 degree and over temperatures. However, we did have many super high humidity
days. Ugh!
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