Is summer over!?!
I just got back from a weekend in the Berkshires (a region of Western Massachusetts), and I can tell you for sure that summer is over. It was beautiful, lush and green with summer trees and flowers like this:
Within weeks, it's going to look like this out there:
By day it was tank top and shorts weather. In the late afternoon and in the early morning, it was see-your-breath cold. The summer-to-autumn transition means you can get away with a t-shirt but you carry around something with sleeves. But that's not why I say summer is over.
It's the smell. It's clear and crisp air. The smell of freshly mowed grass is replaced with burning leaves or campfires. I started noticing it last week in Boston, and now I KNOW it's autumn.
I love living with the four seasons, even though I get a little sad for a minute when one ends and another begins (unless winter is ending). But then I get all excited about wearing different clothes and doing different things outside when the new season starts (uh, unless winter is starting). So when I smelled autumn, I got a little sad about leaving summer (tank tops, blueberries, beach) behind BUT got excited about starting autumn (jeans, apples, woods).
How do you know summer is over where you live?
Cheers, Lara
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Um, the Christmas Catalogs are POURING in!! : )
I haven't exactly figured out how to tell when summer is over here in Las Vegas. I have noticed that the days are "cooling down", 102 instead of 112! I guess summer is over when it gets down to the 90's? But your post is making me miss the changing seasons... and cool evenings. *sigh*
I only wish we had more of a season change. I live in San Diego and the only sign that summer is over is that I get to go to a bunch of street fairs in the next few months. I make do by making a bunch of crap that no one will ever eat but I like the way it makes my house smell in the fall.
Four seasons? I'm so jealous! In Texas, it's still over 100, and this last Christmas, we had to turn on the air conditioner because it was so hot! So much for gathering around the fireplace...
The biggest indicator is SCHOOL starts NEXT WEEK!
I love New England! It's starting to get cool at night and the kiddies will be going back to school:)
Here in Pittsburgh, I noticed that the robins were gone back around the middle of August. The fireflies are gone too. They just suddenly disappeared. The leaves on the trees aren't that deep emerald green anymore, but are taking on more of a yellow green and today I saw the first truly red leaves of the season. I picked one and stuck it on my fridge with a magnet. It's still pretty warm and nights aren't chilly just yet but it won't be long... I'm excited too. It's my favorite season.
