The weather this week has been amazing for the first full week of August. We turned off the AC and let the windows open day and night. I have lived enough summers to know the hints of fall when I see them. Warm days, sunny blue skies, low humidity, and cool nights. I know what nature is up to. It's beginning the work of painting the leaves for the next season.
Of course, it won't stay this way the rest of the month and another heat wave is in the cards. But there is no denying summer is winding down. Corn, peaches and tomatoes are in season. Back to school sales are doing a brisk business. The seasons change so gently they begin as a mixture of seasons.
The last of summer and the first of fall
Together they stand in August Days.
The garden is bright with summer bloom,
And yet there creeps up that autumn haze.
You can look forward or look backwards
To a lovely summer you would recall,
But the changing of the season has come -
The last of summer and the first of fall.
Lenore Hetrick
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