Signs of Autumn (Post Them Here)

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I'm more likely to switch back and forth with the heat/air conditioner in the car--or roll the windows down.
I waffle about taking a jacket in the morning--and have to pay a little more attention to the forecast.
Any morning condensation on windows, cars, and blades of grass takes longer to dry off.
The "new school year" vibe starts to settle down a bit.
The air is a little drier.
We can open the windows to let the fresh air fill up the house.
I see fewer bugs, more large birds (especially geese).
Shadows start to lengthen.
Things seem to sound a little louder.
The breeze gets stronger.

We call them Wooly worms.Supposedly you can for cast the upcoming winter by them.The more black on the worm,the worse the winter will be.Its not accurate.

The white asters,purple ones and goldenrod all abloom.

You sure you're not in New England?

There was a tourist from New Hampshire in the antique store the other day that remarked how similar it looked to his home.We have sugar maples here also and the old timers used to tap them for syrup.I'm going to try my hand at it this spring.

Monarch butterflies all over the zinnia,red salvia and tithonia plants in the garden.Lots of other butterflies visiting also.The sound of a great horned owl hooting around midnight.

It's that time of year:

Hazmat Team Evacuates School Over Pumpkin Spice Air Freshener

A Baltimore school was evacuated Thursday by a hazardous materials crew after complaints of a strange odor that turned out to be a pumpkin spice air freshener.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School was evacuated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday due to a weird smell, reported WBALTV11.

However, fire officials confirmed later that the odor was from pumpkin spice air freshener after running tests that did not detect hazardous materials.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/06/hazma ... freshener/

Blue Jays noisily flocking, Monarchs floating southward, crows gathering at dusk into their autumnal communal roosts.

Canada Geese overhead.

A Nashville Warbler hopping around in the bushes.

Leaves crunching underfoot when I take my dog for a walk
Lots of squirrels out
A group of seagulls, which I don't usually see around here (presumably they're migrating)
Cold front moving in tonight
It's now dark at the start of my horseback riding lesson (7 PM)

I made that mistake too, the first few times I saw this thread title

The little Swamp Maples are at peak scarlet. They're always the first to go.

Oh God, how cute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_RZZoREC4 -- Tom Rush, "Urge for Going", to me the definitive song of fall.

Some of the trees here just dropped their leaves without a show.Most are still green,a few are golden.
First geese overhead,white throated sparrows have arrived,maybe a light frost later in the week.Time to think about bringing the house plants in and getting in the last of the vegetables from the garden.Muscadines are ripe and it's time to pick up black walnuts.The Poneapple sage is in full bloom,a brilliant scarlet.My antique cascading mums are simply amazing,puts the modern mums to shame.
I was too late for the Home Depot 75% off plant sale. They moved it up for some reason.All they had left were a few roses.They were BOGO so I brought home two.Knock Out Sunny,which is fragrant and yellow and Miracle on the Hudson,single red.It has lots of hips on it.Good for tea and the birds like them.
Someone arriving to clean the flue out today,I'll need a fire later this week.

Starting to get more autumnal temperatures here.
I'm seeing more and more Halloween decorations around the neighborhood every day.
Not a sign of autumn specifically, but of different weather - when I was taking my dog for a walk the other day, instead of being upset that he didn't get to chase the bunnies, he was upset that he didn't get to play with the toad.

Killing frost tonight.Picked all the tomatoes,peppers and zinnias I could salvage before the frozen wasteland of tomorrow morning.Got a nice fire going.Feels snug as a bug in a rug.