Fall Begins Now

Red Maples at The Pond 2014

When a season changes I'm always reminded of the major reason I live here instead of Albuquerque or some other place in the Southwest, which I dearly love.  It's the four nearly equal seasons.  I have lived in Southern California, Eastern Oregon, Albuquerque, Maryland, Iowa, Alabama and, of course, born and raised here where I now live again.  None of those places can boast four nearly equal seasons, except perhaps Alabama, and maybe Maryland?  What is so preferable about that?  I LOVE CHANGE.  Already my spirits have been lifted in the last week when I pulled out two cotton sweaters and actually wore them for the first time since last spring - and then only rarely.  Now, of course, I am back to tank tops and shorts after ten o'clock in the morning…...  The changing colors in the woods are a gift from God we don't see in some parts of this beautiful country.  (I must confess, this is last fall's red maples - they haven't yet changed this year.)