Laidback Autumn.....

Autumn in northern California kind’a sneaks up on you...
it’s very subtle, y’know....a California thing....the laidback lifestyle...the leaves are very shy about changing color as tho’ they don’t want to give up on summer...they do it reluctantly as if they’re embarrassed, clinging to the tree ‘n only letting go in the middle of the night to float to the ground ‘n lying there as if they’d been there all along ‘n nobody had noticed.....
The days are still warm but the nights are cooler, coming earlier in the evening ‘n hanging around just a tad longer in the mornings.....it makes it harder to get up or easier to lie in bed, your choice.....
But Autumn is coming...you notice it in little ways, like the hesitancy to shave in the mornings.....must be a primal thing, needing a beard to keep warm in the long winter ahead.....and storing all the nuts ‘n berries (figuratively, of course) necessitating a trip to Apple Hill for the baskets of apples ‘n jugs of cider, gotta snug up the old cave against the winter rains....
Yesterday evening when we went for our little stroll, there was almost a full moon, almost a ‘Harvest Moon’ dipping lower to the horizon......Yep, Autumn’s coming, I c’n feel it in my bones...