So.. It's Fall
Today marks the end of Summer and the beginning of Fall. Which if you like football games is probably okay. However if the rest of this dying season is as wet as the last few days it is not going to be fun at all.
Don't get me wrong I love the colors of Fall. The crisp air is not the best for asthma but it smells clean and woodsy. Walking through the woods is nice, the rustle of the leaves and the way the cooler light filters through.
But it is Fall and it is the season of dying, of settling down to sleep. Plants die or settle into sleep depending on whether or not they are an annual. Animals scurry collecting winter stores of food and birds gather together to fly south.
But have you noticed that thanks to mild Winters and weird weather patterns some birds never leave? It was mild enough last year that robins never left. That can't be good. I recently bought Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth. Haven't started it yet. There's no doubt in my mind that Global Warming is real and we ought to be paying attention to it.
Sure there are people out there who say that the whole thing is blown way out of proportion but even if Global Warming is not yet a threat, shouldn't we still make changes to reduce its impact? If it is blown out of proportion then we still have time to fix it. To stop destroying acres of rainforest a day, to reduce emissions, to make a difference.
And if we make a difference then crisp Fall days will be enjoyable for generations that follow.
Don't get me wrong I love the colors of Fall. The crisp air is not the best for asthma but it smells clean and woodsy. Walking through the woods is nice, the rustle of the leaves and the way the cooler light filters through.
But it is Fall and it is the season of dying, of settling down to sleep. Plants die or settle into sleep depending on whether or not they are an annual. Animals scurry collecting winter stores of food and birds gather together to fly south.
But have you noticed that thanks to mild Winters and weird weather patterns some birds never leave? It was mild enough last year that robins never left. That can't be good. I recently bought Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth. Haven't started it yet. There's no doubt in my mind that Global Warming is real and we ought to be paying attention to it.
Sure there are people out there who say that the whole thing is blown way out of proportion but even if Global Warming is not yet a threat, shouldn't we still make changes to reduce its impact? If it is blown out of proportion then we still have time to fix it. To stop destroying acres of rainforest a day, to reduce emissions, to make a difference.
And if we make a difference then crisp Fall days will be enjoyable for generations that follow.
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