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Fall is the finest time of the year
Autumn leaves and football games. What could be better? By Jim Kundreskas
Date published: 9/23/2006
TODAY IS THE FIRST day of fall. Or we can call it autumn. Spring has just one name, as do winter and summer, but there are two interchangeable labels we use for this time of year.
Why is that?
I'll argue that it's because this season is the best of the best and the absolute finest time to be alive all year long.
One name just isn't going to be enough for something as good as that.
I mean, what's not to like?
The sky is so often a dazzling blue, none of that hot-hazy-humid stuff we can almost cut with a knife around here in August.
The air now is just so crisp and clean all day long, and we don't work up a little sweat anymore just putting on our socks in the morning.
There is no snow to shovel off the front steps or ice to scrape away from windshields, and the grass isn't growing as fast as it does in April and May.
That sure cuts down on those tiresome mowing duties.
It's just grand.
Here in central Virginia, we do have four bona fide seasons, and I actually enjoy that.
My parents moved to Jacksonville, Fla., when they retired many years ago, and my wife, the kids, a few dogs and I would often visit them during the Christmas break every year.
However, something down there didn't seem right in winter.
Oh, the palm trees were certainly pretty when everything back home was so lifeless and barren, but it just wasn't proper to be looking at so much green when the calendar had January coming up just a week away.
There's nothing at all wrong with a good, deep, crispy-cold winter, and it only makes springtime so much more welcome every year.
I don't mind the sometimes sizzling temperatures around here during July and August, either. They, too, just make this current time feel that much better.
Yep, I do admit to a fondness for four real seasons of the year, but, as I said, fall/autumn is the absolute finest of them all.
Date published: 9/23/2006
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