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These occasional autumn days

In a recent essay I edited for a special section we posted online, one of our paper's guest writers said that the reason he thinks Southerners go crazy for college football is seasonal. Specifically, he noted that since we have really gray and brown (read: dull and non-picture postcard snowy) winters here, our springs are fairly short (and pollen-laden, which makes them miserable for all us allergy sufferers) and our summers are swelteringly hot, autumn is the one season we have that's absolutely perfect down here. So football fans make the most of the time outdoors.

Football doesn't make my autumns, but being outdoors in the welcome first cool breezes of September does. That's how it was all day today -- sunny, breezy, cool and with no humidity at all. Any born-and-bred Southerner knows, of course, that Mother Nature is just teasing us with these snippets of autumn; fall never comes to the South this early. But we do appreciate the sneak previews.

posted by rekkidbraka @ 10:46 PM