Autumn, astronomically speaking, begins today

It’s officially and fully autumn, or will be come 8:03 pm locally. It will then remain autumn for the next 89 days, 20 hrs, 44 mins. YMMV. The sugar water feeders for the hummingbirds and orioles are cleaned and stored until next spring. We won’t need to plug in the heater for the bird bath for another week or two. Wasps and hornets are searching for places to spend the winter. Temperatures will peak at or below the low 70s for the next week or ten days.

autumn’s colors emerging

Photo by J. Harrington

Chlorophyl is slowly fading from deciduous leaves, exposing their underlying yellows, oranges, scarlets, russets, etc. Political signs are popping up in yards and along roadsides faster than asters and mums. Soon pumpkins will prevail, and then, jack-o’lanterns.

Cool nights for sleeping; warm days for walking. Autumn must be close to an ideal season, especially as it leads to Thanksgiving and the Yuletide. Unfortunately, we are then faced with the depths of winter during January and February. Maybe I should have learned to hibernate when I was young. Either that or migrate south for the winter.

At least I have a stack of good to great books to read. And there’ll be the ponderings and cogitatings about what the results of the upcoming elections will mean for the future of our country, our children and ourselves. Don’t you think politics is too important to be left primarily to politicians and pundits? Isn’t politics how we govern how we govern ourselves? If we make aa mess of the former, then ...

Autumn

By T. E. Hulme

A touch of cold in the Autumn night— 

I walked abroad, 

And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge 

Like a red-faced farmer. 

I did not stop to speak, but nodded, 

And round about were the wistful stars 

With white faces like town children.

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