Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Autumn Moon<\/p>\n
A cool rain and a chilly fall evening with wet gold stuck to the bricks and asphalt, a low cloud cover and darkening twilight skies.<\/p>\n
Though ready to travel there is a sadness in missing the rest of fall, the transition from this still part summer, part cooler season time to the bleaker, barren time of November.\u00a0 It is a favorite season, the continuing turn toward the Winter Solstice.<\/p>\n
We will leave it behind, first for the warmer, much warmer Western Caribbean, then sweaty Panama and hot Ecuador.\u00a0 As we move south, we move into spring with milder temperatures, then, in southern Chile among the fjords and glaciers and around Cape Horn, the southern equivalent of the far north, where temperatures will be cooler.\u00a0 So, for us, 2011 will be a year of two springs.<\/p>\n
And, a shortened fall.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mark in Ha’il, Saudi Arabia faces 97 as a typical daytime high.\u00a0 Gotta wonder what global warming has in store for the desert kingdom.\u00a0 Sort of the old petrocarbons coming home to roost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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