-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 09-21-12  09:19 <=-

 MR> I know what You mean. I had to drive down to Elmira after being east
 MR> of Rochester. Went down 14 on some beautiful country roads, but it was
 MR> raining much of the time. I kept running into areas, where I got into
 MR> the Hills down south, that were flooding pretty good and state police
 MR> kept rerouting us. Nothing catastrophic, but it was raining pretty
 MR> good Tuesday.

Got some extra sight-seeing in along the way, eh...?  :)  What you could
see through the drops, anyway...   :)

 NB>> We have a red maple in our backyard that seems to always turn early...
 NB>> it leafs out early in the spring, too, so I guess that makes sense. 
 NB>> :)  The beech trees always drop their yellow leaves early, too... and
 NB>> they've been dropping for about a month now, I think...!
 MR> 
 MR> I had heard it may happen earlier this year due to the warm and dry
 MR> weather. The fliers are already beautiful, but from what I saw down in
 MR> the southern tier Tuesday, It will be another 3 weeks at least, to
 MR> peak. 

I don't think it's all that early for the early leaves to be turning. It
just always seems too early to me, every year... and then I realize we
really are just about to fall after all... :)

 NB>> I can never decide whether my favorite is spring or fall...  :)  

 MR> I only choose fall, beside it's beauty, for the fact it is generally
 MR> still warm during the day, and it may cool down in the evening, which
 MR> I don't mind after all summer with that rotten fan in the window. Yet
 MR> the days are not humid, though they can be warm. On those humid days,
 MR> it still is in the 60's or low 70's, so it is tolerable. And with the
 MR> weather change, I don't mind it getting dark a bit earlier. Though I
 MR> do not like getting up when it is dark, which is happening already..
 MR> But You are right, who could hate the beautiful Spring, especially
 MR> after the long winter?

They both are temperate seasons, and a relief after the extremes of
winter and summer...  :)  And both beautiful, each in its own way,
whether the riotous colors of the spring flowers or the riotous colors
of the turning leaves...  :)

As for getting up in the dark... I don't like that either... which is
why I argue for standard time to be all year round rather than having to
deal with Daylight Stealing Time...  I keep hearing proposals to have
DST all year round, but I'd MUCH prefer Standard Time year round
instead.  We'll need to use lights at one end of the day or the other
anyway, and I need the natural light to get moving in the morning.  

ttyl          neb

... Snowboarding is for those who feel that skiing's not lethal enough.

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