- 13
- September
- 2007
Four For Fall
Today the weather was dramatically overcast and breezy. The laundry that I hung on the line in the backyard at one p.m. had to go for a ride in the dryer at six, when I finally conceded victory to the rain, quickly gathering t-shirts and towels from under the misty sky. It was dark at eight p.m. I sat on the porch wrapped in an oversized sweater and watched yellowed leaves from my walnut tree coast gently to the ground. Whatever the calendar says, it's Fall here. Or, at the very least, the beginning of it. If you've hung around here for very long, you'll know already that I take significant pleasure in watching the weather change as these are my first years living in an area that exhibits four distinct seasons.
Today I cooked and baked in honor of the chill and the clouds and the drying leaves. I made some of my cool weather favorites, imagining with happy expectation the winter rains that are coming and the cozy curling up I'll do once the weather demands that I tuck in my garden, take out extra blankets for the bed, and re-light the basement furnace. Summer may not be over - indeed, I am counting on a few more warm days for both my seedlings and my sanity - but there's an unmistakable twinge in the air. You can smell Fall here, and right now it smells like warm wine, soup, and crunchy, stick-to-your-ribs cereal.
Potato Leek Soup(revised recipe)
Isn't that funny, how bam, one day you wake up and go outside and smells like fall? Then you notice the quality of light has shifted a bit and there is this something, this baked in feeling of the warmth from the sun? About a week ago I did this, and I said, "Damn, it's fall."
*sigh* 4 seasons? This summer felt like an extended spring! =D It never really felt like summer this year. I wonder what that means we can expect for winter...
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