I have tried to deny it but the inevitable showed up yesterday. It's the time of year that I can tell from the way the sun shines on certain objects that it is no longer "summer" of the look and feel we have when the sun is "on our side" and gives us the angling that leads us to know it is what is my favored time of year.
We really do not have 4 distinctive seasons in this part of the deep south. I have yet to experience precipitation in the form in which many see in winter - as snow does not reach these "here parts" and I believe 2 inches fell on the ground here in the 1950s. We did have a dusting which lasted 2 hours, but could't scrape any up.
However, for me, it's the shadowing and the angle of the sun's rays that does it for me. And... if I look at the flip side of winter's solstice, compared to this date - it would be early February that would be the reverse time of late October -- would it not?
Anyway, one would think I love fall and winter. I enjoy knitting, I enjoy the winter colors that are warn. I love fireplaces. however, I do not like short days OR "cold to me" weather, which is anything more than putting a sweater on -though i LOVE MY Irish Walking Cape I invested in one winter as a gift to me.
I am not a fan of the short days - I get the mully grumps and by January I feel pretty much as though I have seasonal affective disorder - but I shouldn't have- I live in the deep south. I should be getting enough light, right?
The heat has already been turned on in this house - we southerners don't seem to have the "contests" on who can wait out the latest to turn the heat on - we are weather weanies here.
The tights and wool socks come out now - and I must find the winter clothes I have yet to unpack. We will continue to have the warmer days throughout the winter - as one day we may have a high in the 30s/40s, and the next day 70 and sometimes... 80.
I sort of hate to see the summer go....
I feel the same as you, but as we're in opposite seasons, I am enjoying the onset of summer here. Yesterday, we had a cold winter's day and I turned the heater on.
Snow? Not usually even in winter.
Daylight savings begins here at the end of this weeek.
Posted by: Carolanne | October 26, 2006 at 03:00 AM