…is the only season that I miss in my home state. Springs are nice, but they’re basically southern Cal standard. Summer, while it can have some nice days, tends to be hot and humid. I don’t mind cold and snow per se, but southeast Michigan winters are unpredictable (a white Chistmas is hit or miss), and generally on the edge of freezing, with slush, slick ice, and ugly mud. But fall… The closest thing I can find to it in CA is to go up into the Sierra with the aspens and sycamores. And south Florida? You’re joking, right?
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The Mid-Atlantic is screwy weather wise too.
Last week it was in the 40’s. This week, back to the 70’s.
Global Warming?
We’re having a bizarre Fall here in NJ this year. After the coldest Summer on record we started off too cold to really enjoy it. I put the liner in my jacket in September, which is odd for me. But the last couple weeks its been warm, and yesterday I was wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops outside. Really weird.
But on the whole, I know what you mean. The crisp dry air and orange leaves of a nice Fall are a unique pleasure. Maybe next year.
I never really seemed to notice fall while growing up in Sacramento, though when I was older I sure noticed when things I’d always associated with that time of year disappeared, like smoke from the rice fields casting a more golden haze to the sunlight. By then though I was heading up to the foothills every October to visit the orchards at Apple Hill in El Dorado County.
The most striking fall seasons were in Fairbanks, where the color change was explosive, but once changed the leaves were almost always gone within a week or two.
Here in Georgia the progression is so gradual that I can look through now-leafless trees at others that haven’t even begun to change.
You are so right about fall in michigan — and this year’s has been spectacular.