Well, it's here! I know fall officially started awhile back, but it has just been the past few days that it has really "felt" like Autumn. Cooler mornings, just enough to make me kick on the furnace to cut the chill, and a little frost on the windshields so I have to start the car a few minutes before leaving to let the windows defrost. But by noon, it is a glorius 60-65 degrees with just enough breeze to send the falling leaves chasing each other in a game of tag... Colors are changing so every hill you top opens up a panoramic view of gold, orange, scarlet, and plenty of pine green.
When I am out of town, all I have to do is roll down my window to hear the distant drone of chainsaws cutting firewood for the colder days ahead, and to smell the wood smoke from a chimney that tells me someone has already had enough of the cold! The air is crisp, the leaves crunch underfoot, the deer and squirrels, foxes and bobcats are getting more active. Believe me, the deer know EXACTLY when firearms season starts, and they all move off my property to the neighbor's vacant land, because they know he's never there to hunt!
I love this time of year! Except for the nagging certainty that winter is chasing close behind, there is always a sense of expectation, of hope, as this year is winding down and I look towards the next. Of course, the holidays are coming up real soon, too, like it or not....
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