I can feel it coming, though here on the Chesapeake Bay, Summer is far from over. The days are still hot and sticky. Most evenings, wild thunderstorms generated by all the land-heat push out to sea and crash over the boat. The storms are like grand temper tantrums staged by Mother Nature herself: rumbling thunder flaring to a wild pitch of rain, wind and lightning, then over quickly, leaving calm. The waters are filled with jellyfish galore—a product of the higher salinity this time of year—all the way to the northern end of the Bay. Still, Fall is on its way.
The first harbinger is all the “back-to-school” sales. Advertisements for everything from Notebook computers to notebook paper everywhere you look. Pencils, erasures, backpacks, sweaters: all necessities of the new school year. Though I am long out of school, it makes me want to go out and buy shoes; a new pair to celebrate the new year. Because, for me, Fall is—and always has been—the start of the New Year.
Soon the weather will match my mood. The air will lose this humidity and become crisp. The skies will be a crystal blue, all haze swept away in the northerly winds. Leaves will turn brilliant colors and slowly fall to the ground to be shuffled under our feet and raked into piles. The season I love the most will truly arrive and—here in the mid-Atlantic—linger and laze its way into Winter.
So, I’m sending you all a bouquet of No. 2 pencils, to celebrate Fall. I hope you enjoy their heady aroma of new beginnings. Perhaps they will inspire you to sharpen one, pull out that new notebook, open the cover and write a few words. As for me, I think I’ll go look at shoes.
6 comments:
Hi Lisa,
I love Fall too. Although here in Texas, it's a little further off. When I worked for an airline and travel was more reasonable, I always made a Fall trip to New England to drive through and see all the color. Beautiful time of year. It's colorful here, but nothing like in your area. Thanks for the post. I can almost smell Fall in the air.
Fall is my favorite season, too.
I love fall. I live in Missouri in the beautiful Ozark area. Well, I'm in the city but in just a few minutes you can be in Arkansas and see the Ozark Mountains. It's beautiful in the fall. We have had just enough rain that the colors should be good this year. Last year it got too dry and the leaves died before they could turn colors. I have a friend that moved to Rhode Island and she said after she moved there she used to drive down the streets taking pictures of the beautiful New England fall foliage. Of course the hometown people looked at her like she was crazy.
Fall is my favorite season, too. The others have their beauty, but Fall beats them all.
Lisa, that was a wonderful post, I could really envision those storm clouds building, and then the heat and humidity of the day finally dissipated by the blessed rain.
We get the same thing but at the beginning of Spring where I live in Australia.
However, we don't get Fall (and we'd call it Autumn if we did):-). I'm hoping to be able to experience an American Fall one of these days.
CC
I like fall, but I'm not ready for it yet. This summer has been too cool and wet. I would like the warm weather to say just a little longer. Fall to mean means football is here and sadly baseball is almost over.
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