Autumn

Autumn is here, on the calendar. Cloud has moved in during the last hour, and although I had pulled the one curtain shut to keep the sun off the monitor, it is now open again. Grey, low clouds have drifted in off the sea.

Linda, over in Washington State is having rain, day in day out. The 8 hour time difference was borne out on Saturday, when I posted sunset pictures and she had yet to put her face on. Sorry, Linda.

Elsewhere, I'm waiting for David in Colorado to report the first snow of the winter season in the Rockies. I'm not expecting much down here - the previous three winters there was not snow until March.

Donna (who entitled her latest entry Holy Crap!) is getting ready for her hockey team to start the real games of the season, and I hope they do better than last year. She is also the one that kindly provided the graphics with this entry.

Another sign of autumn is of course Halloween. Not a minute after astronomical summer had come to a close on September 22nd did we have Halloween popping up all over J-land. Och, why not, in fact. What I will object to (tongue-in-cheek) is any mentions of Christmas before 1st November. Please. I mean, the shops are brimming with Halloween stuff (not here, though), but on the 1st November, they'll be chucking all of that out, to replace it with Christmas articles, which will adorn the shelves for two months with jinglebells, santas .... (crashes noisily off chair).


Anyway, I'll quietly await the arrival of the first autumn gale - none imminent on the weathercharts at present. October can be like that. It is still hurricane season, and that will continue until the end of November. You'll have me going on about that if anything threatens land. Well, enough ramblings for now. Donna, again, thanks very much for the graphics.