After reading a few of the “obligatory post-summer anticipatory Fall” blog posts, I have to wonder … is it Fall yet?!

Here it is Halloween and it seems like we’ve had a whole two days of sub-75 degree temperatures. I look out my windows and the leaves are still on the trees … and they are still green. (Does anyone else remember trick-or-treating and running through yards so filled with leaves that they came up to your knees?)

It feels like I’m in some kind of seasonal limbo. Next season, same as the first — just replace the hours at the pool with school. Part of Fall for me is anticipating Halloween by breaking out some long-sleeved shirts, campfires, pumpkin farms, taking pictures of the changing leaves, and eating some delicious BBQ as the smokey scent fills the crisp air.

On top of all this, WAL*MART already has its Christmas displays out. So it seems we are just skipping Fall altogether now and going straight to “the most wonderful season of all” … shopping/materialism season.

Can someone let nature know that it’s Fall? Thanksgiving is less than a month away.

Happy Halloween!