Where is Summer and What happened to Autumn?

I really hate the whole daylight saving thing. I've have the luxory of walking up with the sun regardless of the season, but right now its so late when the sun finally shines through the window!

And what a shock to find out it was below freesing overnight! NNNNOOOOOOO its too early for frost!!!

Ah well, at least I didn't have to scrap the car windows or dust the snow off - but that will be soon enough.

Dave

Purple, White, Yellow, Blue

A few days ago, after I posted about the Colors of late September, I realized a photo is worth a thousand words, so enjoy:

Dave

Light at the End of the Tunnel

It seems like we've reached that point in the year were the sun is in just the right spot that about half the time its blinding you while you're trying to drive. And besides that, its in just the right spot so that neither the left nor the right car visor blocks it and blazes away right along side of the rear view mirror.

During Fall, its like the sun is burning on high and it just seems so bright. Add in the dew on the grass and you get little jewels all along the side of the road twinkling away as you pass by.

The other bad part is I'm read to end this stupid day light savings bit. If you want more sunlight, get out of bed earlier in the summer time! It seems so obvious to me that 99% of us no long work dawn to dusk on farms, yet we hold on to modern traditions like Day-light Savings time. Where's the Savings? I'm awake the same number of hours as the rest of the year. I guess I don't get it (assuming that there's something to get!).

Colors of Autumn (September version)

As I was driving this AM, I was thinking about the colors of Autumn. Everyone probably thinks of reds, yellows, and browns as leaves turn those colors before dropping for winter. But as I was driving this AM I realized that for right now, the Colors of Autumn should be white, blue, purple and yellow- for all of the wild asters and golden rod blooming along the roadsides and farm fields. Its sometimes hard to imagine that all that color is sitting off the side of the roads just waiting until the temperatures start to fall and the days get shorter.

Speaking of temperatures, more often that not, the overnight temperatures head down into the 40s while the daytime highs still approach mid 70s. Its leave for work with a jacket and return home in shirt sleeves kind of weather. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while I can.

Dave

Chug Chug Toot Toot - Driving to Work

I have lived enough to have been able to be to work in five minutes and sometimes it took a hour or more. The hour long ride was nice and relaxing in that if work was ugly, by the time I got home - all was right with the world and vice versa. Of course, in the dead of winter, it also once took me over 6 hours to travel the 50 miles I was traveling to get to home from work and that night was no fun.

Now, I have a fairly pleasant 20 mile drive through mainly farm country getting to and from work. At this point in my life, I enjoy the beginning of Fall as the leaves are just starting to turn. I can tell that the Early Goose hunting season has started as most of the field have flocks of geese picking through the harvest stubble.

The real highlight is like this morning when I get to glance at a pair of majestic Sandhill Cranes standing in the morning light of a fair field, daintly stepping through the rows of corn stubble, picking at the spilled grain.

Soon though, the fields will be covered with snow and another, albeit my last winter of traveling to and from work, will be here. Is it too early to dream of Spring?

Dave

Everyday really is Monday

In the blog-o-sphere, the biggest problem is addiction - addiction to reading blogs and ,at the other end, addiction to writing them! When I started blogging, I had a specific topic blog in mind - bird watching. But then came along gardening, and then...and then...and then it wasn't long before I noticed that I had enough blogs that I couldn't get around to posting on them regularly.

Ok, I could/should have created a single blog with different categories - I know/realize that now! I guess I could move everything over to one and get things organized better. I guess the other idea is the one where I'm at. And that is to create sort of a master blog. If I don't have something specialized to talk about, it goes here; If I do post to one of the specialized topic blogs, then I'll drop in here and post a link to the specialized blog.

Don't ask me how I think this will be any better or if it will work - I'm just a blogger and I want to have fun.

Dave