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Jengie jon
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A comment was put by Nenya about the autumn nip in the air starting about mid June and it made me aware that * watch for the signs of autumn as much as * do for the spring. So * thought as we have had Spring ones in the past that an Autumn thread might work.
Normally it is when the virginia creeper leaves start to be tinged with red on my way to work. However, this year it was finding a conker in my path in Mid August!
So what is the first sign you see and which do you look for?
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Yellow Jackets - all of them angry and wanting to chase and sting you - worst in late August/September. Picnics and State Fair food vendors are their favorite places.
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Ariel
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Blackberries, plums being ready to pick, and the bales of straw in the fields. The skirl of brown fallen leaves started about a month ago, probably because of the hot weather and lack of rain. The sunrise becoming visibly later is another sign as well - it's approaching 6 am now and won't be long before I find myself leaving for work in the halflight before dawn.
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Duck Blind Drawing day. The first Saturday in August officially kicks off the start of fall, for me, even though it's usually 90+ degrees that day. That's when preparation for fall and winter hunting kick into high gear and conversation turns to decoy spreads, cammo patterns, tree stands, duck blinds, coon dogs and who's going to cook at the annual dove hunt.
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jedijudy
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Choosing a Christmas cantata for the choirs.
The choirs have been on summer break. A lot of folks here fly away to cooler climes, as most people don't enjoy August in Florida.
This morning, I did see some dead elm and olive leaves on the driveway.
Surely there will be an end to the blazing hot weather someday!
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Needing a jumper during the day.
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Jane R
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That moment in the year when you are too cold at night with your summer duvet, but you can guarantee that if you put the winter one on the bed there will be a heatwave the next day...
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Nenya
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Morning dew on the cobwebs in the hedges. Ripe apples on the trees, heralding the arrival of bagfuls of them at work - someone I work with has four trees so gets a glut at this time of year and brings them in for us all to take home. The first leaves turning yellow. The advertising of the forthcoming autumn TV schedule and the prospect of something decent to watch at last. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
It's that late-summer season, when everything's looking a bit heavy and tired. The sun may still be hot, but the verges are dusty, the wayside flowers have dried into seed heads and the leaves are still green but no longer fresh.
Nen - not a great fan of autumn.
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I am often in awe of the gorgeous colours of autumn, absolutely incredible.
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St. Gwladys
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The lightweight duvet is back on the bed.
I once read a qoute that Summer begins in the evening and Autumn begins in the morning. It felt quite Autumny a few mornings this last week, and there was a heavy dew on the car this morning.
By the way, can anyone help me to identify that qoute?
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Rosa Winkel
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I was told the other day that in Poland many say that one can't go swimming outside after the festival of the Assumption of Mary.
A clear sign is this: It's heading towards the time to dig the potatoes up, and therefore I will, next week, replace them with white mustard, thus preparing the soil for next year.
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Local apples, the harvest run on the corn crop, and especially where I am, the start of the massive bird migration along the Mississippi flyway.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Here in Phoenix, where it doesn't begin to cool off until after Columbus Day (October), we can at least be thankful that as summer wanes the white-winged doves no longer make their obnoxious mating and territorial calls, although they continue to do their duty all over the sidewalks.
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Piglet
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Mine isn't a natural phenomenon; as I mentioned in AS, the Cathedral Crypt tea room finished its summer run yesterday, and that's one of the local "end of summer" markers.
JJ, you're not alone in choosing your Christmas music in August: D. used to take his carol books when we went on holiday and have the carol service more-or-less sorted by the time we got back.
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daisydaisy
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At this time of year my outdoors-in-the-summer cat starts to sleep indoors at night, and even snuggles up to me in the early morning.
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Ethne Alba
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Conkers, plums, second flush of blackberries...and the realisation that I've started wearing woollen tights and thick polo neck jumpers.....
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Pine Marten
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
JJ, you're not alone in choosing your Christmas music in August: D. used to take his carol books when we went on holiday and have the carol service more-or-less sorted by the time we got back.
No indeed - our organist has been telling our singing group what he is planning for Advent through to Epiphany ![[Smile]](smile.gif) , and as he is away on holiday next week he needs to get it sorted!
I love autumn. The main sign for me is that I cease being a grumpy old bag because of the heat, and start being civilised again. I like the lengthening shadows, mellow autumnal warmth (not searing summer heat), cooler nights when I don't need an electric fan and I can sleep better. Ah, lovely! ...and it'll soon be Advent ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) .
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Horseman Bree
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When the high-school kids with summer jobs start talking about wanting to be in school...
and the parents of elementary-school kids do the same
and the school-supply lists appear.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
I love autumn ... I cease being a grumpy old bag because of the heat ... I don't need an electric fan ... and it'll soon be Advent.
Yea and amen to all of that! I don't even mind the nights drawing in, as it's all part of the Way Things Are.
Having grown up in Orkney, people ask me if I didn't hate the short daylight in winter, and are surprised when I say no. The long summer days make up for it, and you get used to it - I don't ever remember not being able to sleep in the summer because it was too light, or feeling depressed in the winter because it wasn't light enough.
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Sir Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
JJ, you're not alone in choosing your Christmas music in August: D. used to take his carol books when we went on holiday and have the carol service more-or-less sorted by the time we got back.
No indeed - our organist has been telling our singing group what he is planning for Advent through to Epiphany , and as he is away on holiday next week he needs to get it sorted!
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My wife did a soprano solo at her church this morning: the choir is still out! There is no autumn here, only the summer holidays and the school term.
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RuthW
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The changes in urban southern California aren't very dramatic, so I always notice the change in the light in the fall, the way it's always coming in at an angle instead of feeling like it's beating down from straight overhead for a good part of the day.
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daisydaisy
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quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
JJ, you're not alone in choosing your Christmas music in August: D. used to take his carol books when we went on holiday and have the carol service more-or-less sorted by the time we got back.
No indeed - our organist has been telling our singing group what he is planning for Advent through to Epiphany ......
Last Sunday the organist played the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - there is of course no reason why this can't be played on a hot August day, but it did feel strange. This organist likes a bit of fun when he covers for the regular one.
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Piglet
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[tangent ON]
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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
Last Sunday the organist played the Hallelujah Chorus ...
D. played that at the end of a funeral once: the deceased (a gentleman in his late 80s) had been very active in the local Choral Union and sundry other choirs until well into his old age, and loved Handel's Messiah. A good chunk of the congregation was made up of singers and musicians and we all thought that, although a rather odd choice for a funeral, it was absolutely right for him; we had visions of him sitting in the Heavenly Choir, passing round the Polo mints and asking what page we were on.
In the sol-fa edition ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Chocoholic
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Are any other Brits thinking autumn has come earlier this year? I'm sure the temperature has fallen earlier than it usually does.
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Jengie jon
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Yes! Why do you think I started this thread. I picked up my first two conkers yesterday. I do not normally do that until September.
Jengie
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On a more shallow note, A/W makeup collections being released. Givenchy's and MAC's Brooke Shields launch look amazing.
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Jante
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And the blackberries seem to have ripened much earlier this year- I'd normally think of picking them towards the middle of September, but they are rip alread
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Blackberries have been ripe early. I'm about to have a few for breakfast. The few apples have dropped.
The grapevine is starting to have grapes that are not completely sour. The Cherry tomatoes are ripe and the few big tomatoes start their race to ripen before frost.
But the big sign of fall here is rainy season. We had a real rainstorm last week, complete with thunder and lightning. Soon the six months of drizzle will start....
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I'm sure I heard frost mentioned on the weather forecast this evening ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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The leaves are showing signs. Even as this week thus far has been +25°C. Tomorrow the high is suggested to reach 14°. We prefer snow to hold off until September. Though summer is really only 3 or 4 months of bad skiing.
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Dark when I get up at 5am.
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I've had my first charity Christmas card catalogue.
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Nenya
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I think I heard them say on the radio this morning, while I was still half asleep, that it had been the coldest August night for 20 years in some parts of the UK.
Nen - thinking socks and jackets.
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Moo
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It appears we will set a record for the coldest August since records began to be kept.
I'm not complaining.
Moo
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Pine Marten
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I'm not complaining either.
'Since records began' is pretty meaningless though - since 2003? 1920? 1750? the Little Ice Age? Medieval Warm Period??
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Sir Kevin
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My sign of autumn is that I am back at grammar school and much in demand as a supply teacher.
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Matt Black
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Blackberries, our Virginia creeper starting to turn, plus being so feckin' cold that we can't have breakfast in the garden. Pretty much the story of the last 10 days. No dew-covered spiders' webs yet though.
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Blackberries for me too, and our plums are ripe for picking.
Today was the first day I really noticed it was cooler outside. I'm packing for Greenbelt at the mo and might have to pack some woolly tights and jumpers.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Jante:
Fighting hard not to give up bare legs and sandals ...
I hope it's still bare-legs-and-sandals weather in early September, as I'm coming over on holiday and I have absolutely no intention of bringing any socks or tights with me. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Mind you, I'm very warm-blooded - as long as the temperatures are above about 5°C I can dispense with socks.
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Originally posted by Hugal:
Dark when I get up at 5am.
Don't get up so early then. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
night-owl piglet
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St. Gwladys
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Still wearing sandals, but also tights and a sweatshirt! Hoping for a week of warmer weather first week of September on the Isle of Wight.
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
'Since records began' is pretty meaningless though - since 2003? 1920? 1750? the Little Ice Age? Medieval Warm Period??
I said "It appears that we will set a record...". I was referring to local conditions and local record-keeping. AFAIK official Weather Service record-keeping started here around 1950.
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Pine Marten
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Sorry, Moo, I was thinking more of the excitable weather and news presenters who breathlessly announce things like 'it's been the warmest/coldest XX since records began in 1920!!' Which doesn't mean much over the course of centuries or indeed millennia .
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quote:
Originally posted by JoannaP:
I've had my first charity Christmas card catalogue.
I saw brochures for the Christmas dinner programme in the Grand Hotel, Jersey, on July 24.
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