It's not official yet and it won't be official until Fall Equinox; this year on the 22nd of September somewhere around 5:20 p.m. But we have cool days and cooler nights and tonight while walking the animal through the cemetery, there were the earliest of autumn maple leaves on the ground.
I used to think of them as show-offs and "me-firsters" but in a more charitable mood these days I've decided that they're the harbingers of autumn. Their appearance means that summer is ending. Yes, we'll have more warm days, even some hot ones, but the backbone of heat is broken and the trend is toward cooler and the first frost and then the full foliage show that New England puts on every year. It's only September 1st, we've got weeks before the trees become colored torches, and winter gets closer but signs are in the air - well really on the ground. Red and yellow are the color of change in the air.
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