tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6663227529115654287.post6060729229418458011..comments2023-05-05T06:23:06.213-07:00Comments on Delights & Prejudices: Fall Not In New EnglandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6663227529115654287.post-66470180403675549152010-01-07T06:55:16.197-08:002010-01-07T06:55:16.197-08:00I'm from Mystic, CT and I've moved away tw...I'm from Mystic, CT and I've moved away twice, and both times I scurried my Yankee hiney right back home! I tried Manhatten for about two years and before that I moved to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a while. Now, I'm not knocking either place, as they are both equally wonderful in their own way. But when autumn came around I became deathly ill with homesickness! There's nothing like the feeling of the crisp air on your cheeks and the sound of the leaves crunching under your feet! Oh, and the first really chilly day you smell that wonderful aroma of a fireplace warming someone's home and you look up & see the smoke rising from the chimney! I'd love to visit SF and a million other places, but I will always - always come back home!FeelinYummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02688630836312152482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6663227529115654287.post-90713623917911279852008-10-30T16:15:00.000-07:002008-10-30T16:15:00.000-07:00So funny - I'm an ex-New Yorker, now living in Cal...So funny - I'm an ex-New Yorker, now living in California. People are always surprised to find out I used to live in the Big Apple: "But you're so nice!"<BR/><BR/>...I've decided to take it as a compliment.<BR/><BR/>JenMudslide Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01771563392595022645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6663227529115654287.post-55962581626204480292008-10-29T00:38:00.000-07:002008-10-29T00:38:00.000-07:00Autumn in San Francisco is my favourite season, as...Autumn in San Francisco is my favourite season, as the light shifts angles and lowers to an intimate level of illumination, even the undersides of leaves glow in their oranges and reds. It's subtle sometimes, but a walk in the California Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park will thrill the seasonally-deprived. The warm days tend to be less frequent after October and though there is mildness in the days, the nights bring on frost. Pizzeria windows steam as they do in the east. Sweaters and jackets gloves and scarves come out for strolls with chilled people. Later, yes we hope for rains. February is always a respite, with the plum blossoms of that secret street in San Francisco always in full bloom on Valentines Day, and the return of great warm days beg for languorous encounters under the drifting petals. And the rains are especially heavy in February, too. You've found the autumn fruit -- the persimmons -- which when baked as bread feed my love of autumn here. Further afield, the grape vines singe the eye with color and here and there mists hang near the ground vermillion-daubed trees in their gorgeous death masks before being reborn.Gloucester1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04100397217896683012noreply@blogger.com