Same to you, eld.

Not much for soup but I am looking forward to the first Chili of the year Halloween night!!!

I love how the crispy weather makes me feel more alive rather than the heaviness of heat and humidity. Happy fall.

Yep, fall is beginning. We had to turn our furnace on this week. The nights are getting cold (40s). It's time to start dragging out the comforters, fleece sheets, insulated drapes, heavy clothes, snow equipment, etc to prepare for the long winter. As we call it "time to button down the hatch". Last time to enjoy being outside. It is also time to cook and bake!

Not a fan of Autumn. Just means Winter is coming. We had a long, hot, miserable summer here in CT. I miss it already.

Fall is my favorite time of year! Love that early morning crispness, the quality of light, the changing foliage colors and all that wonderful fall produce. And not having to water daily!! Made my first batch of applesauce of the season yesterday. Doing some baking today and plan on making French onion soup.

What time is lunch, gardengal garden gal?

Yes it's a welcome relief from the recent heat, now if we could just get a good decent rain here (without the aid of a hurricane).

A little shower turned the page to autumn on Thursday bringing in cool temperatures. The osprey have all flown south. gardengal has me thinking about cooking.

LOL!! Lunch is not a thing at my house :-) If I get around to it, the soup will be for dinner (I do have last night's leftovers too). But I will definitely get the onions caramelized today. They take the longest time.

We hit 97 degrees yesterday, the fall y'all are describing is merely a dream here. I grew up with the changing leaves, crisp morning temps, and back then it was legal to burn leaves, so the special smell of leaf smoke was often in the air.

Rusty

The sandhill cranes have started migrating.🙂

I love the sound they make.

Agree with Rusty…Fall here in SoCal is basically 3 more months of summer but with pumpkins! I do love pumpkins but not quite this much. Yikes! 😳

Ordered some pumpkins and am making potato and leek soup. It's super hot in Austin, and this is the hot season back home in the Bay Area anyway.

This just came across my Twitter feed. This embroidery artist from the UK, Gemma Matthews, is so talented.

Happy Autumn, Everyone! And for those of us still sweltering, may we keep the crisp freshness of the season in our hearts ;-)

Just on Wednesday, I was in shorts and tee for my hike as I had been for many many months and last night it was 45! Rejoice. It still hasn't reached the 60's yet and I am savoring every second. It's the first good sleep all summer since although we have central AC and I even have a window bedroom unit, it's not the same. LOVE it but we desperately need rain. I hope a hurricane does no damage to anyone but settles here for some drenching rain.

This may be why I'm so depressed, I don't like Winter, and the Fall is the beginning. Garden is dying. Sorry to be a downer. I know a lot of people love Fall. I do like the decorations, fall leaves, Halloween but don't like the cold, and gray skies.

Ugh! I just remembered that the clocks change in November.

Envying you all up north.

It's a very subtle change here. It's finally not so unbearably hot that you risk heatstroke being out in it, but it's still pretty dang hot during the middle of the day. At least I can go for evening walks now without almost passing out.

Oh yeah - and it's still hurricane season. Why do they so often seem to head for us at this time of year?

I'm really excited. Everyone at work has been asking me when the place will be haunted, the weather is finally becoming tolerable for at least part of the day/night, and its officially the beginning of "the season of amylou" which will last until the day after Valentines day. I. Love. It.

I had to wear a sweater this morning and socks with my rubber sandal shoes to pick my garden veggies. I'm not happy lol.

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We haven't yet entered fall. Temperatures are 8-9 degrees (C) higher than normal still and we desperately need some rain.

Chicago area had weeks of temps ten or more degrees above normal. Glad to see the back of *that*! I'll need to bring the maidenhead fern into the house from the screened porch tomorrow night. No hatches to batten down quite yet, but I have the draft dodger ready to use under the bedroom door so we can have the window open when we'll have the heat on overnight. There's almost no color on any trees here yet. Even the sumac is just starting to blaze.

This past summer was too hot for me. I am enjoying the cool breeze. I love winter the most, the crispy cold air, fluffy winter coats, hats, pretty winter boots…….winter street fashion is always special to me. Fall fashion is also lovely too. It’s time to dress up everyone! :-)

Forecast here in Los Angeles (in the part where I am now) is 78° - September is typically our warmest month, and it was in San Francisco as well. In fact, it was one of the few months that I actually liked in SF.

In Cathedral City, the forecast today is 108°, but I've had to postpone my trip back there due to breaking a crown a couple of days ago, and I have to stay in L.A. at least until Oct 12. By then, it will have cooled off in CC, perhaps to the point where I would have to heat the pool - I like for the pool water to be at least 85°.

December is the coldest month in Coachella Valley, and so the winter is very short - what there is of it. It will still be in the 70s, but it can get to the 40s at night. Dec through Feb or March is when the most people visit, and I don't especially like that, but there is still very little traffic.

As far as I remember, this was the only first day of autumn in my life that actually felt like autumn. We went from 104 to 56 degrees within a matter of days.

I Love Fall <3

Just so cozy!

September and October are my favorite months on Cape Cod. I always enjoy November and December, as well. Our two coldest months are January and February and they are short, dark days and lots of restaurants are closed because we are a resort community. For that reason, I really dislike July and August. Too many people come here and a lot of them are not delightful. June is a nice month here, and a closely guarded secret...

We always went to the Cape and Nantucket the third week in September. I'd never want to be there in peak times.