Weather or not 2005....

It's still like 90 degrees here. It's bullshit. I miss the North. I miss the fall. It's not supposed to be this hot in late September. I walk to school in a nice breeze. I teach. Then I walk home in crazy humidity, sweating like crazy in my nice clothes.

Boo!

Yet it seems silly to complain about the weather when, 250 miles away, the Gulf Coast is a mess.

True the fall is here has been the best in memory.fresh warm mornings lit with golden leaves and blue sky.

The summer here in Michigan was very very hot and it rained very little.

We finally have a cold front moving in tonight...may even have to kick on the furnace

Bahstin was a hot, humid mess for most of the summer -- glad to see that its been shown the door...

Predicted heat index today in Houston: 110.

yikes x yikes =zikes

In my neck of the woods we've been experiencing a strange & unfamiliar phenomenum: rain! All this spring green is weird (after years & years & years of drought). Ya gotta wear sun glasses out there!

green on earth .............is a good thing

Oh, it is, it is, Algis!

love to love you msolga !

And so is tawny.

the fields are alive
with the colorof
Tawny !

Really?

Could you tell us more about that?

Here in NY we have had a few days of cool weather. But, the trees are still full and green.

Tawny is the color that starts in the fields and then mixes into the forests . It's when a yellow/brown color makes it's sense of purpose present with these tawny hues of plants having completed their yearly cycle of life. As they slowly pass on they reveal a tawny hue through out the shire or wherehappenhaveyou.

Ah!

Thank you for obliging, Algis!

What happens here is that some trees like the evergreens stay dark green and it's this orchestration of changing hues in context to all of this. After a few weeks as tawny gets older and turns to wheat straw for the winter. The best tawny view to my eye is when just a few trees like the birch turn tawny while all the major field plants with the tall grass is all shades of tawny. It is here that via the tawny colored birch trees along the field that merges the field with the forest. with this like this the colors creates a visual conundrum.Making field and foest merge in a most abstract type manner. It can get quite extensive like all the surrounding broadleafed trees ,usually maple and oak, turn tawny simultaneously. Then you are just left with erractic patches of dark green from the blended in Conifers and evergreens. Eventually through out some trees will spark greater colors and turn red and orange/brown and then leaves slowly fall to earth.
What happens next is that the entire forest goes way past tawny and the connection is lost...that merging and it's something else again.

My mother tught me that and she was from Toronto.