This weekend is the last official holiday of the summer. It is set aside in the USA to celebrate everyone who "labors" for a living!
Even though there is no perceptible change in the weather (which means it is still really hot and humid here), school has started, the High School is playing football on Friday nights, our local county fair has begun and I've even noticed a slight change in the color of the leaves on the dogwood trees (which are always the first to change)all combine to tell us it is the beginning of fall!
What does fall mean in your part of the world?
Where I live,the trees will really begin to change until we are surrounded in a breathtaking array of color! We'll finally get a break in the humidity, and start to feel a "nip" in the air early in the mornings. Mums and scarecrows and hay and cornstalks will spring up overnight in many of our neighbors yards. We will start preparing some of the foods more associated with cold weather...homemade soup, beef stew just to name a couple. We'll take a trip to the local "Corn Maze" and select our pumpkin. The hummingbirds will visit our feeders less and less and we'll start to hear the call of geese and ducks as they migrate through. I must confess, fall is my favorite time...
As a celebration of our "last" weekend of summer and the "first" weekend of fall...we will take grandson and a friend swimming today and then take him to the County Fair on Sunday or Monday...how often do you get the chance to celebrate two seasons in one weekend? Hope you enjoy yours!
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