First Sign of Fall

Today while we were running errands one of our stops was at Wal Green’s . There Elizabeth got some candy corns. To her these are the first sign of fall. I guess it did not matter that today’s high temperature was in the 90’s. With candy corn in the candy jar, it is fall to Elizabeth. She asked me what the first sign of fall was to me. After some thought I realized I really do not think of fall since I live in Texas. Since I grew up in upstate New York, for me fall includes weather getting cooler, leaves changing color, apple cider fresh from the orchard and huge flocks of geese flying overhead. In fact in the south we really do not have the four season that people experience up north. Here we have two seasons, pleasant and unpleasant. The unpleasant one runs from mid May to about now. The days are typically so hot and humid you do all you can to minimize time spent outside. The rest of the year is actually quite nice. On rare occasion it will actually get cold, one year we actually woke to a white Christmas. The snow was gone soon after the sun rose but it was nice. In fact you get into a different mind set. A year and a half ago my Dad died at the end of Jan. I returned to upstate New York for the ceremony. I kept going out of the house without getting my coat and gloves and hat. Down here even in the middle of “winter” I rarely wear them. So for me autumn is about the things I mentioned above. I guess the sure sign of fall down here is seeing Christmas decorations already being sold in the stores.

What is your first sign of fall