It’s the quality of the light, mostly
Surprisingly cold nights? Check.
Bathroom skylight dark by boys’ bath time? Check.
Free-floating wistfulness/melancholia? Well, that one’s always there.
Let the record show that Sunday, 7 October, was the day that finally caused us to say to each other, wow, it’s really autumn.
Gorgeous. I’m partial to fall leaves too.
Comment by aimee/greeblemonkey — Monday 8 October 07 @ 15.41 MDT+2.00
Gorgeous. We’re enduring uncomfortably hot weather here right now, but I
hope and prayimagine a cool blast will arrive shortly.Comment by Jane — Monday 8 October 07 @ 16.06 MDT+2.00
We’ve got whitish-grey skies with intermittent drizzle and bone-chilling dampness today. Fortunately this type of day alternates with ones of clear bright light, illuminated red, orange and yellow leaves, and the sweet and spicy smell of summer dying off.
I’m so glad today is a stat holiday in Canada because days like this, while miserable to be out, are a permission slip to sit around in pajamas and not accomplish much beyond writing comments on blogs…
Comment by Roo — Monday 8 October 07 @ 16.17 MDT+2.00
Oh, yeah, happy Thanksgiving, Roo! Enjoy the squirrel-stuffed puffin or whatever it is you people enjoy on this day of thanks. This very EARLY day of thanks.
Oh, and try not to sleep around.
Comment by sgazzetti — Monday 8 October 07 @ 16.30 MDT+2.00
I must direct my boyfriend to this post, he refuses to admit it is now actually cold. He just keeps yelling “Put on more clothes! Toughen up! It’s only autumn”
Comment by camille — Tuesday 9 October 07 @ 09.44 MDT+2.00
That’s puffin-stuffed squirrel. (It’s okay, foreigners get confused all the time.) We had it with the traditional birch-syrup and muskrat-marrow reduction, boiled moss, and followed it all up with oak leaf pie! YUM! I’m stuffed. And sleepy. (Squirrel meat is notoriously chock-full of tryptophan.)
And yes thanks, I also succeeded in not becoming a huge whore this weekend! Yay me! Hahahahahaahaaaaaa.
Comment by Roo — Tuesday 9 October 07 @ 15.36 MDT+2.00
I found you by way of Erik’s Blog. That is a lovely picture, we have one of those in our garden too, and it’s a beautiful red right now. There’s a robin that comes every morning to eat the berries off it.
Comment by Theresa — Thursday 11 October 07 @ 10.48 MDT+2.00
My son attempted to eat the berries off it and had to be dissuaded.
Comment by sgazzetti — Thursday 11 October 07 @ 11.48 MDT+2.00
Found you by way of nablopomo. I’m very excited to explore your blog more. I have a co-worker who is from Slovenia, I’m not sure of the name of the little town. I’d love to visit there. We have a holiday planned for March, is it very cold there still at that time of year?
Comment by Geggie — Sunday 14 October 07 @ 17.47 MDT+2.00
Beautiful.
I love that certain day when you know autumn has arrived. This year, here in our part of France, it has been a gentle arrival, and I’m loving every gorgeous, colorful minute of it.
Comment by Jennifer — Monday 15 October 07 @ 13.49 MDT+2.00
Hmm,
Hasn’t posted in over 10 days (had to take my socks off to count that last day)…. Sparse in between the previous posintgs….
Yep, you did sign up for NaBloPoMo.
The stockpiling of November postings is rising like the pile of logs for the upcoming Slovenian winter. We’ll just have to wait another 13 days for the plethora (something like a verbal hijara) of wit and wisdom.
Comment by DarkoV — Thursday 18 October 07 @ 17.25 MDT+2.00
Your conclusion is sound, Darko, but that doesn’t make it necessarily true. Sadly, no stockpiling has been going on at all. Just been too crazy-busy for any silliness at all.
Comment by sgazzetti — Friday 19 October 07 @ 11.17 MDT+2.00
In my part of Canada, our autumns are rough and quick. Leaves are stripped from trees overnight, snow flurries pop up in mid-October, and men in dark tunics steal our Thanksgiving squirrels.
Comment by palinode — Friday 19 October 07 @ 16.05 MDT+2.00
Just hate when sound conclusions get cluttered up with contradictory facts. Oh how the world would be simpler without facts.
Or as Mr Byrne says Facts lost-Facts are never what they seem to be.
Comment by DarkoV — Friday 19 October 07 @ 17.39 MDT+2.00