Open Thread – Coming Fall
The tundra in the mountains is starting to turn a beautiful maroon-red, and the leaves a subtle shade of golden brown. Fall is around the corner, and the evenings are glorious.
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The tundra in the mountains is starting to turn a beautiful maroon-red, and the leaves a subtle shade of golden brown. Fall is around the corner, and the evenings are glorious.
What a beautiful photo. I feel fortunate to be living in Alaska. Every season is the best for me. September is always so rewarding. Harvesting homegrown vegetables or Mother Nature’s garden is fun entertaining and challenging. I just put some celery in the food dryer. First time for celery, we’ll see. The cranberries are amazing right now and easy to preserve.
We’ve had our first really cool days – crisp clear air, gorgeous blue sky. I’m not going to be unhappy to see fall come – I never am – except for the heating bills.
Here in Vermont we badly need visitors to come see our fall colors as they usually do, but we will be dealing for months with the heartbreaking damage to homes and – especially, roads. About 200 miles of roads have been damaged or destroyed, which is a huge amount in our tiny state.
merrycricket: my birthday’s October 18. I’ll root for her to be early for everybody’s sake, but if she’s late I’ll rejoice with you
Usually, the bf and I just visit upstate NY to see the fall foliage. I’ll try to talk him into a trip to Vermont, a state I love dearly. Maybe you can suggest a great B&B for us to visit?
People in the Catskills have also been hurt terribly by the recent floods so – NY or VT – either way your visit will help people who depend on those tourist dollars and who are struggling mightily right now.
Whichever way you go, do lots of research beforehand about what towns and routes have lost access due to destruction of roads and bridges. It will likely take weeks, if not months, for some of those structures to be repaired. It’s truly mindboggling to see what a path of utter devastation Irene left in her wake. For a storm that many people dismissed as hype, it has caused immense hardship to millions of people and many won’t recover for a very long time, if ever.
This is the first year in almost ten years I have not marked the beginning of fall by planting myself in the bleachers at my Son’s football games. Instead, this year, I am going back to the change of season marked by the transition from fishing and canning to quilting and fireplace read-a-thons. No worries here, I love the coming of winter and the rest that comes with it. (And eating all that smoked fish).
Lovely mountain photo. I have been enjoying the colors.
I don’t think that the autumn colors will be their usual spectacular display in my area this year. We have a lot of maples around here and they usually turn gorgeous shades of red, orange and gold. Unfortunately, the black tar spot disease that caused such problems for our maple population a few years ago has come roaring back this year. I suspect that the excessive rain in the spring, followed by an extremely hot and dry July weakened the trees and made them susceptible to disease.
The dry, brown, distorted, black-spotted leaves started falling a month ago and already litter all the lawns in the neighborhood. It’s kind of sad.
I suppose the only good thing is that I’ll ultimately have fewer leaves to rake and bag.
Oh rats! I just realized something.
The fewer leaves that are bagged and delivered to the town recycling program, the less lovely (free) leaf compost we’ll have next spring. 🙁
End of summer?? I did NOT authorize this.
Fall is close by. On my way home from East-Central Ioway I saw a single farmer combining soybeans,and you know what that means. An influx of lady bugs trying to Winter in the house and they all smell bad when they get squished.
I love fall but I also hate to see summer end. One of our neighbors (behind us) spent today having all of his very tall, very old and beautiful trees cut down. I guess he doesn’t like trees anymore. It’s one thing when a tree is diseased or is in danger of toppling on your house but just to get rid of them? The noise has been driving us all crazy – from before 9 am and still continuing at 7:45 pm. The beagles keep looking at me to make it stop and I can do absolutely nothing. It was also warm enough today that we had our windows open, until the noise forced me to close them. Closed windows have little effect though.
I love autumn. I remember the heartbreakingly beautiful day September 11 was 10 years ago in Pennsylvania…one of those days that is clear and warm and gives a promise only a September day can give.
As we are now in North Carolina, we attended the September 11 Memorial performance of the NC Symphony and the NC Master Chorale last night. They performed Mozart’s Requiem superbly.
But before the Maestro led the Requiem, he broke into the Star Spangled Banner with full Orchestra, 170 voice choir and every attendee joined in and there was not a dry eye near me.
They also presented “The Dead of September 11” by Toni Morrison set to music by Mark Scearce.
For anyone who has not read it, link here http://www.legacy-project.org/index.php?page=lit_detail&litID=83
September has always been a sweetly bitter month as we bid goodbye to summer.
It is forever so, now, as America, in many ways, bid goodbye to innocence.
I always get a tad melancholy at the end of summer. It seems like it was so short. *sigh* I had the whole day off today and spent it trying to whip my garden back into shape in the hopes that I will be able to spend some more time in it before the snow flies. I will get another day off this Sunday for my daughter-in-law’s baby shower. 🙂 She is due on October 17th, but might be early I am told, because the baby is so big. I can’t wait to see her and my son!
Much happiness to all of you. Grandbabies are WONDERFUL!
Ooh…October 17th is my birthday. Good birthday karma to her, whenever she may deliver!
I love being a Nana!
Ah, a Libra for your daughter-in-law. My mother’s birthday was October 16th. Blessings to you and yours, and to your garden.
I also love being a Nana.
Gorgeous picture. I love September evenings and loving the warm Summer days we are having in Seattle. August was just another month of Spring, but finally summer.