September 22 Hello Fall!
Super Harvest Moon Sabino Springs Tucson 9/2024
Just for Fun: Clues That Fall has Arrived In Tucson
- The cold water faucet has cool, not hot water.
- We can “open up” rather than live with A/C all day.
- Folks venture outside later than 10:00 in the morning!!
- The phrase “it felt cool this morning” is both a wish and a reality.
- Dog walkers discard hot weather dog booties.
- Dogs retire the four-legged locked position which means “No way am I walking out there today.”
- Flip-flops are still a staple for footwear; this is Tucson, after all.
- Clothing choices become fall-ish, a short-sleeved top as opposed to the thinnest sleeveless one you can find.
- “I hot-footed it to get to the store before it closed” is a figure of speech, not a painful expedition.
- We live near Sabino High School so the sounds of football cheers and band practice drift our way.
- I watch with envy as girls and boys walk, jog, and run along the roads for cross-country practice.
- On cooler evenings some fashionistas break out shawls, scarves, and long pants (albeit made of materials labeled thin, lightweight, breathable) that would induce heat exhaustion in the extreme heat of our Tucson summer.
And so it goes…
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Ethel Lee-Miller blogs regularly about people, the power of words, and her writing life. She retired after 30 years of teaching, and semi-retired from coaching, and professional editing. Founder of the Eastside Writing Room based in Tucson AZ, she’s posted 100s of blogs, and is the author of Thinking of Miller Place, and Seedlings, Stories of Relationships. These days she writes to inspire, to connect with folks, teaching about the power of words, gather writers together, and for the pure enjoyment of it. Ethel enjoys teaching, speaking, and storytelling at Odyssey Storytelling, Artists Standing Strong Together, Center for Spiritual Living Tucson, and anywhere there’s a mic or a Zoom room.