Like it or not, seasons change.

[john hall]

I'm a spring and summer kind of guy. I hate it when the days get cool and the nights get long. A couple weeks ago I noticed corn pickers, corn headers and even deer corn popping up on Craigslist. Then last week there were fall mums for sale at the grocery store, and a radio commercial for a Christmas music concert (it was 95 deg. outside). This evening as dusk began to settle in and the air got damp, you could really smell the fast ripening field corn (I imagine the combines are already running down in A Cecils neck of the woods). And then I noticed them--quite a few trees that are not as green as they were, shades of yellow, no red or orange yet. Heck, I still haven't got the 128 serviced for this year. Guess its going to be the "closer" and get leaf grinding duty.

[DieselDoctor]

43 degrees here in the fingerlakes region of NY last night. It should be more like 65 or so. A week or two more of this and the leaves will be turning early this year. Yuck!

[Bamafan]

John I know what you mean by the change of the seasons. As for me Im a spring and fall guy, summer is ok but here in bama it gets so dang hot and humid at times it is hard to get outside and I'm a outside person, I can't stand to be inside.
In the spring everything comes to life with the smells of fresh plowed ground, fresh cut grass, cool mornings, sitting on my back deck watching the farmer breaking ground and planting ( mostly cotton or soybeans). Thank goodness where I live I'm surrounded by farm land.
Then in the fall, even knowing the winter is coming I love the smells of the fall. On a cool fall night you smell the cotton in the fields, during the day watching the machines cutting beans or picking cotton. I love the colors of the trees as they turn, Football, as for me I like to grind leaves it gives me more seat time before winter, when all I can do is sit in the shop and feed wood in the heater. But that's me an ole retired fart who is unable to work anymore.

[DeltaCub]

I too love spring and summer... fall and winter not so much. I love the warm sunshine, the vivid colors of the rebirth of life and the aroma of blossoms that overwhelm the senses. I love the summer festivals, lightning bugs (yes, in Ohio we call them lightning bugs) the green grass, beautiful blue skies, fresh produce from the gardens, baby bunnies and the endless day. Autumn, to me, represents the coming sadness of the end of all the summer goodness. The holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas do help to postpone the inevitable....cold, gray, gloomy, seemingly endless winter that comes upon and holds tight. But then, through the waning months of late winter, something colorful appears....those tiny, but ever promising prelude to spring, flowers we call crocus emerge and renew our hope. Winter soon lessens it's terrible grip (except in northern Wisconsin were winter last for nine months) and the beauty of spring comes alive!

For now I live in northeast Ohio and enjoy it but hope to move to the desert southwest and enjoy sunshine and blue skies year round. In the meantime, I will enjoy the upcoming fall season with fresh cider, locally grown apples and the Grape Jamboree in Geneva, Ohio.

America is an awesome place to live!

[zippy1]

Great thread John.
I'll take a three season year if I had the choice. But with the devastating weather southern folks in Texas are having, I really don't have anything to complain about at the moment.
The season of rebirth has to be my favorite. Birds are back and singing their spring songs after the trip from their southern wintering homes, grass is greening up, the scent of fresh plowed fields. The warmth of the ever rising sun feels so good after the winter's bitter cold.
Spring turkey hunting usually get's two into the freezer, for when we want something different for supper...
An occasional baby whitetail following behind the mother who is blotchy brown and orange, not yet out of her winter coat. The smell of fresh spread cow poop on the fields. Yeah I know, but it reassures me I'm where I belong, in the country.
The pond is open, so time to catch a couple meals of fresh fish, and freeze the rest for leaner times.
Second best would be the season of harvest. Filling the jars with the garden's bounty. Planting food plots for the deer, so they'll have a helping hand through the bitter winter that's just around the corner.
Filling the freezer with venison, so there is always prime grub waiting to become a meal, and not having to buy meat from a store.
Putting the grass cutters away for the season. Feels good at first, then you realize what comes next, and I ain't got nothing good to say about that season.
My third season would be, well obviously summer. Everything is growing gangbusters, nice warm days, with extended daylight, so you can "enjoy" the day later. But with summer comes the unbearable heat at times, that's when in the evening me and the woman take a road trip with the 56, all windows down going to the Ice Cream depot...
The fresh cut alfalfa and the scent of bailed hay, takes me back to when life for me was so good, ma cooking dinner for father and me who are bailing hay together. Hated it then at 10 years old, but would trade anything to have those days again with father and mother...

[olds45512]

Originally Posted by zippy1

Birds are back and signing their spring songs

I didn't know the birds in Wisconsin were deaf and I didn't know you could read sign language, guess I learn something new everyday.

Sorry Todd, I couldn't stop myself.

[R Bedell]

We have had a couple of nights were the temps have fallen to 43° already. Generally speaking, the summer here in Mid Michigan has been not that hot. I suspect that the Fall Season will come early this year for my area.

[darkminion_17]

Originally Posted by olds45512

I didn't know the birds in Wisconsin were deaf and I didn't know you could read sign language, guess I learn something new everyday.

Sorry Todd, I couldn't stop myself.

I thought he meant the rock group the Byrds were signing a new contract so they can have a concert, nothing like David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, and Jim McGuinn. I am sure it would be a great one, but dead birds sing no song, and some birds do not reproduce very well such as a swallow.

[zippy1]

Originally Posted by olds45512

I didn't know the birds in Wisconsin were deaf and I didn't know you could read sign language, guess I learn something new everyday.

Sorry Todd, I couldn't stop myself.

Originally Posted by darkminion_17

I thought he meant the rock group the Byrds were signing a new contract so they can have a concert, nothing like David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, and Jim McGuinn. I am sure it would be a great one, but dead birds sing no song, and some birds do not reproduce very well such as a swallow.

Oh no need for a "sorry" Tim, I've been grilled before.
Couple smart a$$e$, your day will come...

[drglinski]

I'm not a big fan of fall either....I hate Halloween and all things associated with it

BUT

I like the cooler weather. Not sweating all day long in and out has it's benefits.