This is it. This is the day.

[WilliamPitt]

One day, every November, the temperature dives and wind howls and the rain goes sideways and the snow shows its face...and all the remaining leaves come down. That day is today, and boy, it's a doozy. The trees are dancing the tango, and the leaves are swirling in tiny leaf-tornadoes in the back yard. The top of the mountain is frosted with snow. By morning, the limbs will be bare, and will stay that way until May. It was a truly glorious Autumn, but November is in full throat outside to tell me it was nice while it lasted.

I went out this morning without a coat, not even thinking about it, until the wind got up under my shirt, tapped my heart on the shoulder, and said, "Remember me?"

Yep. It's here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is just plain beautiful, evocative writing, my dear Will!

Poetry at its finest.

Thank you!

[hlthe2b]

2. Beautifully descriptive!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Yup. The wind was blowing everything around this morning.

Our small Koi pond is full of yellow and brown leaves.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. For me, the day was October 30.

That was the day all the leaves fell off my catalpa tree, all at once. It does that. Other trees slide from summer into fall and into winter gradually: Starting in September their leaves slowly turn yellow or red; then by late October they turn brown and dry; then they fall off. Not the catalpa. Its leaves stay green well into October. Late in the month they take on a sort of pale greenish-khaki shade; and then one day they just fall off. Big, pale, flabby leaves that don't dry out, but litter the ground like used-up paper plates after a sad picnic. And that's how I know it's getting to be winter.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. We had it last night.

Freeze warning. the high was only 59.
Cotton still being harvested, temps won't bother it for awhile.

Me, I stay indoors a lot and look outside at the deceptive sunshine.

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