In Sports:
The Baseball regular season ends, thank God.
The Hockey regular season begins. Go Hawks!
The college football season starts conference play. Those Eastern Michigan vs. Ohio State game are thrillers but..
The NFL is getting into full swing. Go Bears!
And the NBA begins training camp, complete with full coverage of the Miami Heat by ESPN. Go Bulls!
But besides sports, there are other reasons I like the advent of autumn.
As someone who has worked outside his whole life, I really enjoy the brisk mornings and the lower humidities these fall days bring. I love the trees changing colors. I love wearing hooded sweatshirts. I love high school football on a cool fall night, though they start the season way too early now-a-days. I like that it gets darker earlier, although I'll hate those 4:30 sunsets soon enough. Having grown up in a rural area, I like seeing farmers out harvesting their crops at all hours of the day and night. I like apples, pumpkin pie and cider. Bonfires, tailgating, driving down a scenic road just marveling at the foliage.
Yeah, I know the clocks ticking. My father-in-law Conway would say on a day just like today: "What a beautiful day". "Yeah but it'll never last" replied my wife's pessimistic Uncle Dean. Thinking only of the winter that would soon be upon us. I guess it really is all in the way we look at things.
But besides sports, there are other reasons I like the advent of autumn.
As someone who has worked outside his whole life, I really enjoy the brisk mornings and the lower humidities these fall days bring. I love the trees changing colors. I love wearing hooded sweatshirts. I love high school football on a cool fall night, though they start the season way too early now-a-days. I like that it gets darker earlier, although I'll hate those 4:30 sunsets soon enough. Having grown up in a rural area, I like seeing farmers out harvesting their crops at all hours of the day and night. I like apples, pumpkin pie and cider. Bonfires, tailgating, driving down a scenic road just marveling at the foliage.
Yeah, I know the clocks ticking. My father-in-law Conway would say on a day just like today: "What a beautiful day". "Yeah but it'll never last" replied my wife's pessimistic Uncle Dean. Thinking only of the winter that would soon be upon us. I guess it really is all in the way we look at things.
