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Thread: Sighs of Autumn
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Earwig
Pincered Beastie
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My personal calendar tells me Autumn is starting when I need to switch my SAD lamp on, and I start craving buttered bagels.
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Matt Black
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Weather forecasters telling us to 'wrap up warm if you're going out today' or 'take frost-sensitive plants indoors tonight', like they're my bloody grandmother or something.
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rolyn
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If we want a sign of Autumn, or indeed the depths of December, than have an August Bank Holiday . Never fails ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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jedijudy
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I do believe the light looked a little different today. Hoping for coolness somewhere soon. The water at the beach is 92. No refreshment there.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Unpacking the Doc Martins...
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Chinese supermarket is stocking big, shiny tins of moon cakes.
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Siegfried
Ship's ferret
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As Ruth mentioned, in warmer climates (I'm in north Florida), it's more subtle. It's the change in the light for me, and a slight change to the air. It's not exactly cooler, but slightly drier. Autumn has a definite smell, even early on.
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Siegfried
Life is just a bowl of cherries!
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This weekend, with Monday being Labour Day and a holiday is the traditional end of summer for us. Leaves changing, the garden will be coming out, blow out underground sprinklers. Go to lake and get the dock out. There's a bit of saying goodbye to summer, but hello soon I hope to some snow. Love winter I do.
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Piglet
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The beginning of the end of summer here seems to me to be when the windy weather gets a name ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Today's offering is courtesy of Cristobal
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quetzalcoatl
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I keep treading on crab apples on the pavement; quite a lot of people have them in their front garden. I suppose I should pick them up and make jelly. No.
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Cameron PM
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I fell asleep with the window open and woke up three quarters petrified. From 25 to 5 overnight.
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Meg the Red
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I have to switch my bike lights on when I ride to work.
It was sufficiently cold this morning that we had to play tennis in jackets and gloves.
Pumpkin recipes are showing up in my favourite baking blogs.
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Ariel
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Mm yes, the appearance of the first pumpkins on sale.
Also the appearance of rather a lot of spiders, especially in wing mirrors. I keep clearing the webs away, but my car's beginning to look as if it belongs to Miss Havisham.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I've been told they don't like peppermint. I must get some oil and make up a solution and see if spraying it about the place will deliver me from the usual unsettling autumnal morning encounters.
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Ariel
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I was told they don’t like conkers, but I’m not keen on draping a necklace of large glossy nuts around the wing mirrors just to frighten spiders. It might result in just swopping the spiders for, as it might be, squirrels.
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quetzalcoatl
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Went to my local bird-reserve today, and the autumn migrants are beginning to pour through - marsh harrier, snipe, yellow wagtail, green sandpiper; also flocks of small birds are beginning to assemble for foraging.
Remember the birders' prayer: please bring bad weather and gales, so we can have lots of rare birds from the US, Siberia, and all compass points!
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Matt Black
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Sharp nip in the air first thing this morning although low 20s now. Unlike Ariel, my car does not yet look like it belongs to Count Dracula, but I am sure that this too will come to pass in the next few weeks.
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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Winter Bike Jacket Feels Good and Protective rather than unbearably stuffy and hot. Yes I am a two jacket biker.
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quetzalcoatl
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I noticed yesterday that the shield-bugs in the garden are now a nice shade of bronze, darker than their summer bright green. I think they will hibernate soon, so just a little time, to see these brilliant little critters.
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Ariel
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Sharp nip in the air first thing this morning although low 20s now. Unlike Ariel, my car does not yet look like it belongs to Count Dracula, but I am sure that this too will come to pass in the next few weeks.
It was Miss Havisham actually. Though if your car starts to look like Dracula's, perhaps a wreath of garlic, strategically draped from wing mirror to wing mirror via the bonnet, may help to dissuade those cloaked nocturnal visitors.
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Carex
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My hands got chilly when I was out running this morning, so when I got in the shower afterwards the water that was pleasantly warm on the rest of me felt stinging hot. About 10C / 50F this morning, although the forecast calls for 35C / 95F later this week.
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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Christmas stuff at Costco. Except, that was in August this year.
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Chocoholic
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2 of those big spiders that tend to come out around autumn ran across the floor last night, one over my foot, eeeeek!
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ChastMastr
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quote:
Originally posted by Chocoholic:
2 of those big spiders that tend to come out around autumn ran across the floor last night, one over my foot, eeeeek!
They were just having a drill for the bug-eating squads, never fear.
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Frost forecast this week. Leaves solidly turning. Seeing my breath at 6:00 a.m. when pretending to run with the dog.
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cliffdweller
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L.A. has been flirting with triple digit temperatures all week, autumn feels far off, the cooler nights would be a welcome relief. Autumn for me is marked of course with a new school year-- dusting off my briefcase, loading up my lecture, polishing up my powerpoints. Getting a new backpack and a couple of new uniform shirts for the boys...
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Graven Image
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The children are back in school, the pool is open only on the week-ends, pumpkins are starting to appear at the store, and only the ill informed are wearing white. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Sandemaniac
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Starting to see kingfishers regularly along the Thames as the youngsters spread out and the adults think about heading for the sea. Halcyon days!
AG
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Pomona
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quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
2 of those big spiders that tend to come out around autumn ran across the floor last night, one over my foot, eeeeek!
They were just having a drill for the bug-eating squads, never fear.
Actually it's because it's mating season - they're males desperate to mate, otherwise they die! It's why they appear in places like the bath, that they'd never normally go to. The little feelers at the front get covered in sperm and wiggled about to attract lady spiders.
Cellar spiders (the thin spindly ones that shake in their webs) eat house spiders by the way, so keep them around.
Definitely noticing the nights drawing in. Boo!
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Chocoholic
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Hmmm, do I need to build a cellar?
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L'organist
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My neighbour gathering the last of his apples to make cider - which he and I leave to a year before drinking.
Jolly fine stuff.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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smoking fish, wood smoke, the smell of ripe cranberries.
and walking in the morning to find iced over puddles and jumping in them with great gusto. CRACK!
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daisydaisy
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Birds twittering their autumn song - I have no idea what they are.
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quetzalcoatl
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Mostly robins, one of the few birds that sing in winter, territorial little buggers. But their song becomes more melancholy in winter, if you like that kind of thing, which I do.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A feature I notice especially because I am spending more time sitting on a verandah in the Po Valley than I normally do - the number of small, bitey buggers about. And yes, I am positively drenched in repellant.
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Pomona
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quote:
Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Hmmm, do I need to build a cellar?
We have them in my bedroom and our downstairs loo, so no!
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rolyn
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We've had 2 whole weeks without rain . This isn't normally a sign of Autumn west of Dartmoor , very pleasant nevertheless.
We do have browned and shrivelled beech leaves starting to appear on the grass . These are the first to give up not having really turned . Dark at 8.00 pm too, so no escaping the fact that a most agreeable summer, though hanging on nicely, is now slipping away.
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Chocoholic
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I do love the autumn colours. Planning a trip to Wisley gardens in a few weeks when they should be really stunning.
On the spider front, I was alerted to one in my room the other day as the cats were trying to get it it in the corner of my room. I did manage to get it into a glass and outside before it became a 'toy'.
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Sir Kevin
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Is massive flooding in areas of under-developed storm drains in new areas of the county a sign?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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A sign of Republican short-sighted stupidity. It never ceases to amaze me that with all the wealth concentrated in certain suburbs of our beloved city, they can't see fit to spend the money on a really efficient drainage system. Or that people who build expensive homes on the bottom of dry lake beds get so upset when the lakes become un-dry.
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