Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Autumn will be here soon....

Mmm, autumn squash soup!

One of my favorite parts of autumn, along with the cooler, dryer weather around here (we tend towards hot, humid summers, and autumns/winters so dry that I get spontaneous nosebleeds!), and the 'back to school' nostalgia (I was the weird kid who hated summer 'vacation,' which meant working all day on the farm, instead of escaping to hang out with my friends at school).

Now that there have been kids in the house for the last decade or two, I enjoy 'back to school' season for another reason... 'Yes! They're out the door! Eight hours of blissful peace and quiet, back to bed!'

It's still 80 in San Diego! Alas, I'm still getting used to living here from the East Coast...

Time marches on, strange though it may be. Fall (and spring, for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere) is upon us.

But maybe before then the North American West Coast could get some (all) of those April/May showers??

FALL, DAMN YOU, FALL!

Look, we call it autumn here. Get a grip.

The poem is charming and haunting.

I have no choice but to go back to the usual nonsense.


Here, we call it Tuesday, then it's winter. Or maybe back to summer. Things are confused.

Here we call it Spring, but then we do stand on our heads down under.

Yeah, it just so happens that we have more countries in the northern hemisphere... many people don't even realize that the seasons are reversed depending on which half of the globe you're on

and of course many forget the tropical regions, which have basically "wet" and "dry" seasons only!

It was in the eighties* earlier in the week.

It's down to the thirties, so on comes the electric blanket... (I used to never get cold, and be infamous for wearing shorts and a t-shirt while wading through hip deep snow. Now I can't even go into the milk aisle in the supermarket without a sweater! Getting old sucks!)

Fall has indeed fallen!

*Fahrenheit. That translates to... something else, in metric. How many fathoms per furlong?

haha! I find I'm still as vulnerable to temperature changes now as I was 20 years ago...

I'm generally bad at distances and measurements, and having to think Celsius v. Fahreneit or miles v. kilometers doesn't help lol

When I first moved from Brisbane in sunny Queensland to Melbourne in southern Victoria (about equivalent to moving from southern California to Washington state) I was astonished at the difference. It took me awhile to get used to the idea of walking in brilliant sunshine and still needing to wear a jumper. My flatmates nicknamed me "Sir Gregory of the Many Jumpers". I'm used to it now, or at least to wearing more but yes as I have grown older temperature changes are more discomforting.

Quite an adjustment, isn't it?

The Philippines has a lot of biome / biosphere variations, but the temperature is fairly constant around the country (except in, say, the high mountains). So I got used to hot, sticky, humid weather. It was like that in much of East and Southeast Asia.

I remember my first time in Australia. Sydney. I think it was the Australian winter then (it would have been summer in the Philippines) and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked the weather.

I would experience the same in Los Angeles and San Diego, in July/August. Sunny, but relatively cool for me, and dry.

The climate in Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam (where I've lived the last few years) has also been similar between the 3 places. Summer heat waves are the only time I get really uncomfortable. The rest of the year, I'm happy. I turn on my electric fan if it gets a bit too warm, put on a cardigan or a sweater if it starts getting a bit cold... Ah, bliss.

Officially Fall now. There was some very promising rain, but this week is going to warm back up. I can not approve of such shenanigans.

It was raining hard here in Rotterdam this weekend.

Your very own monsoon!

Do people name their children "Monsoon"? I've known women named Autumn and Summer (no Winters, Springs or Falls, at least not outside of comic books).

Edena from Absolutely Fabulous had the surname "Monsoon." I can't remember whether or not that was her maiden name, it's been so long since I've watched it.

If it's Fall, it must be time to eat yourself fitter.

... or let yourself go and hide it under a voluminous sweater

"What's a computer?"

Maybe one day they will invent a smart computer, aka cellular trim ray, to keep us fit without dieting or slaving away in a gym

Reposting because.

** It is beyond be-leaf.

Zoom 7 par xenophora, on ipernity

very classic collage, cleome! well done! Love the colors and the layout!

Thanks, Buddy. The young ladies in work pants and the tiny leaves are all from a 1943 Montgomery Ward catalogue.