Winds of Change

It's been warm and breezy for the past few days.  With all of that breeze, I can't help but feel that we're experiencing the winds of change.  For one thing, it's a new month.  September brings a new school year, autumn, the harvest, fall color, warm days, refreshingly cool nights, and, if you're a fan, football.  Our local University of Wisconsin-Extension horticulturist Phyllis Both published a newspaper column recently in which she quoted George Santayana:  "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."  And so I sit, in a happier state of mind, knowing that the winds of change are bringing about a new season, a new beginning, and a new way of being and thinking.  We'll take walks in the autumn sunshine, eat apples from Ski-Hi Fruit Farm, listen to and watch football games, load up on farmer's market produce, enjoy fall's breathtaking palette, and let go of summer, one day at a time.