BS: Signs of Autumn

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 10:57 PM

I saw a sugar maple tree with red leaves all up one side today, but the ice cream shops are still open and Stratford is still so full of tourists that us townies can’t go out for dinner on the weekend — no tables at the nice restaurants.

So, while the equinox is indeed imminent, Summer still has a few kicks in her.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Charmion
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 08:47 AM

Finally!

In Stratford, chilly rain and space to park downtown mean that summer’s over and the tourists are going home.

We probably won’t get stay-down snow until Christmas. For the next six to eight weeks, we townies get to enjoy the place ourselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Oct 23 - 07:47 AM

Sweater season down here usually starts around December 22 and ends on about the 24th. It coincides with socks under your Tevas season.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 06:02 PM

(Hands over ears) I can't hear you LALALALALA

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 02:20 PM

Oh, oKAY. I wore socks.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Oct 23 - 05:51 PM

Back to sandals. It got warm again. But leaves are turning...

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM

Thanks to that clear sky High pressure front the hurricane is getting pushed away; By next week the late sunshine will no longer come into the kitchen. The cat food will gradually want to stay in the can. I won't have to mow as much. I'll find my light jacket again. A final trim of bamboo and weeds will be done. maybe an oil change for the car. Plans will be made to budget for next year's big projects.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 11:17 AM

Hey it's cold enough to make Chile again,

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 23 - 06:44 AM

Sweater weather begins tomorrow. Some folks wear shorts here year-round.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 09:23 AM

Our county has banned gas powered leaf blowers.
The 1st ice storm here is about a week after Thanksgiving.
There are the first blushes of colored leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 03:26 PM

In several of the Southwestern states and probably northern Mexico now is the time male tarantulas emerge and start walking around yards and roads and climbing walls looking for mates. It's a perilous time for them, but I love the reminder that my yard is a healthy environment for them to live in.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 23 - 11:20 AM

It's almost time to turn off some of the ceiling fans. The last one to go will be the one in the bedroom at night. There are seven of them around the house, the one in the den that has run continuously since about May 15 is still on.

Days and evenings are comfortable here, it's still jeans and t-shirt weather, but it is a practice that when one goes to public buildings (I was in a large auditorium last night for a lecture) one takes along a sweater in case the air conditioning is to keep produce fresh.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 07:30 PM

I just bought a bottle of Autumn Whiskey. One snort and you change colors and fall down.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 04:13 AM

Usually at this time I hear the wild geese flying over, gossiping high above as they go. Dark-bellied Brent Geese come from Russia and mostly visit the south, or travel on to England. Light-bellied Brent Geese come to Ireland from Canada.
On a biosphere tour of Dublin Bay a few months back some goosists were saying they were deeply worried that climate-change-caused sea rises may wipe out the coastal salt marshes which are these beautiful birds' only food.
I haven't heard the geese yet - maybe because I've been ill and so indoors, or maybe they're just flying a little late this year. I keep going hopefully to the local park where they stop for a rest after their 7,000km flight before heading on to the coast.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Thompson
Date: 25 Sep 23 - 02:37 AM

Acorns are everywhere and a neighbour with a crab-apple tree has given me some apples, as every year; normally I make apple jelly and share it with her half-and-half, but I'm not well enough yet, so I've been splitting the crabs and taking out the two seeds in the centre of each, and have scattered them onto damp tissue paper with a sprinkle of cinnamon and put them in a Ziplok bag in the fridge. However, it's been two weeks and only one of the seeds has put out a tentative root under this stratification… I'm hoping to have a family of baby crab-apple trees to spread around the neighbourhood, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 08:58 AM

Plug-in mozzie-murderers work wonders. We don't use them at home but we never go without in Spain, Italy or Greece, especially late in the summer/early autumn.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 03:36 PM

Today I observed my first gust of autumn wind.
Can't miss it -- it's dry and withering, nothing like a summer wind.
And there are already dead leaves for the wind to blow around.

But at least the sun is shining in a clear blue sky.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 02:10 PM

Waiting for the heat to be turned on,
sleeping with a space heater turned on all night.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 12:19 PM

Moving right along:
the heat has been turned on now.
And the maples across the street, all green,
have started turning the leaves to gold.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 05:13 PM

Looking forward to one of my favorite signs of autumn:
NO MORE MOSQUITOES.

We still have a few errant bloodsuckers hiding indoors
waiting to bite us.
Outdoors it's too cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 06:06 PM

Still waiting for the red maples to turn colors.
They say it should happen in the next two weeks or so.
The golden maples are starting to turn yellow now.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Oct 23 - 06:37 PM

It's getting dark so early in the evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 07:02 PM

A very large old oak is shedding countless acorns.
You can hear the little acorns bouncing off of
branches and leaves as they head towards the ground.
The squirrels are nearly frantic.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 23 - 07:39 PM

... and how could I forget
the LEAF BLOWERS ?!

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 03:34 AM

Here in Norfolk there are numerous oak trees. Now they're producing acorns, and as my husband drives me about in his nice car, acorns drop onto it, risking damaging the windscreen and the paintwork. Also, sweet little grey squirrels are scurrying about collecting them up for their hibernation snacks later in the year.
Actually, I love oak trees. They were planted a few hundred years ago all around the farmers' fields to mark the boundaries. But in Taverham (village near ours) they built a huge new supermarket (Aldi) and felled about ten gorgeous old oak trees. I actually shed a tear when I saw the stumps.

Subject: RE: BS: Signs of Autumn
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 25 Sep 23 - 06:57 AM

Sigh: it's the time of year for Herself to tell me the trees are turning a glorious golden colour, then to ask me (for the N+1th time) whether I really can't tell. All I can say is that it's all green to me, and that I'm happy for her, and slightly green with envy at her superpower.

Occasionally I'll remind her of the urban legend that us colour-deficients were at a premium in The War as spotters, because we could see through some forms of camouflage. I'd be interested to know whether that was actually true.