alison the wilca Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Its the first day of autumn... a little warm here in Chicago but I bought some pumpkins at the farmer's market this weekend anyway. anyone have leaf peeping/pumpkin patching/apple picking plans? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 i am so ready for it to not be hot anymore. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 i am so ready for it to not be hot anymore. Agreed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Very cool pictures. Autumn is my favorite season: cool weather, fire in the fireplace, playoff baseball, football, fresh apples, etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hodie Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Fall is SO not here yet -- it's sunny and in the mid-eighties. The main good thing about that is that the farmer's market still has gallons of summer tomatoes, and I'm sure going to miss them when they're gone. They've been especially magnificent this year. But other than that, I'm ready for autumn, it's gorgeous around here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyflynn Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Alison, did you take those? They're breathtaking. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 she found them on Tom Skilling's (local weatherman) blog. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 ditto! those photo's are AMAZING!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alison the wilca Posted September 23, 2007 Author Share Posted September 23, 2007 yeah, people submit some awesome photos to him... I just wish it had said where, specifically, these were taken! I know it was in the general chicago vicinity at least. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes. All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home. Their women cluck like starved pullets, Dying for love. Therefore, Their sons grow suicidally beautiful At the beginning of October, And gallop terribly against each other's bodies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 yeah, people submit some awesome photos to him... I just wish it had said where, specifically, these were taken! I know it was in the general chicago vicinity at least. As a New Englander, I was unaware the mid-west is fortunate enough to experience the full beauty of Autumn as we do here in New Hampshire. My wife and I are taking our fourteen month old daughter, Lily Mae, apple and pumpkin picking for the first time this year, and I, for one, could not be more excited. She will also be celebrating her first in-costume Halloween this year as well Quote Link to post Share on other sites
renic Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 my brother leaves next sunday to get sergey from ukraine where upon his return we will all carve pumpkins, he for the first time! i can't wait! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I actually went outdoors today, to see my friend Michelle play guitar and sing at an alternative energy fest on the waterfront in Beacon. As the event was right at the Beacon Metro-North station, I took the train down from Poughkeepsie. It was shockingly convenient. Here is a boat, the Clearwater's younger brother, called the Woody Guthrie. Here is my friend Michelle singing. The set wrapped up with a snappy version of "Lady Marmalade." Pete Seeger, who is friends with my friend, was on the scene. At the end, everybody got together for the Clearwater song, which I seemed to recall singing in grade school. Kudos to Pete - before he got involved, the Hudson was an open sewer/toxic waste pinata. And here is a woman with two parrots. She got down and boogied, with the parrots, during the aforementioned Clearwater song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
austrya Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I'd really like to go apple picking. My neighbor went the other day and brought me a ton of apples. I haven't decided if I want to make applesauce or a pie... I'm also looking forward to our town's Fall Festival which is happening next weekend Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 "Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."-Nelson Algren Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 My favorite part of autumn: fresh apple cider from the farmers market Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 how does one make apple sauce? i am only familliar with the canned stuff? that dragon baby is adoreable!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
austrya Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I've never made it myself. My dad and my grandma used to make it all the time. I think you just cook apples with some cinnamon and mash it all up. It turns out a lot darker than regular store bought applesauce and it tastes way better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 springtime comes and the leaves are back on the trees again!"When autumn comes you sit in your chair and you stare at the TV square" which is actually a bad thing...unless we are staring at the Wilco ACL episode. Then, we should probably be dancing around the tv square. Nice of Autumn to clear up all the leaves thus increasing sniper visibility anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Pete Seeger, who is friends with my friend, was on the scene. Looking amazingly good for his 88 years. I hope Pete lives to be 150. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I think I'm ready for fall. August was enough of a scorcher to even make me--a summer-a-holic--get a little tired of it. Fall is wonderful, except for the part about leading into winter. Winter is cute up through the first couple snowfalls, but wears out its welcome with me rather quickly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I love autumn. I just hope we actually get one this year. It seems that all too often in recent years we've gone straight from summer into winter, or maybe had a week or so of anything that could be reasonably called "autumn." At least there's cider. I've already been making the rounds of the local cider mills. Unpasteurized or bust! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Fall means HALLOWEEN!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 I am one day away from completing the fall ritual of hauling of a cord of firewood -- first up the hill, then up the stairs. I've been working on it almost every day for the last 3 weeks or so -- I think I'm actually going to miss this activity. Can't wait to be sitting in front of the woodstove, curled up with a book, a cuppa tea, fountain pen and notebook. In the forties at night, seventies in the day -- that's my idea of perfect weather. The next stage in the battle against upstate winter begins this week -- insulating my almost entirely uninsulated 100 year old house. Fall is my favorite time, but it also signals the beginning of the personal war of endurance that is winter here. I get NO trick-or-treaters -- I think they're daunted by the hill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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