Autumn's coming

The weather has turned cool, a bit, and you can feel the onset of Autumn, travelling down from Alaska, across the prairies. It will still get hot during the days here in September and there will even be those days in October, November and December, when the sky will get clear and the temperature will rise so that you know why you still want to live in Georgia. But for now, I am thinking about the coming of apples and honey and the day's light dying earlier in the day, when you can go home or drive up in the mountains on a weekend and feel the coolness and enjoy a sweater or jacket in the evening and catch the peace of the dying of the day and the end of the year.

As much as I enjoy the coming of Spring, when the cold grey days of Winter, short as they are in Georgia, begin to dissipate into the flowers and sunny days of April and May, I also enjoy the coming of Fall and the colors on the leaves and a Saturday afternoon resting on a bench as the light dies and the coolness of the evening descends upon us.