A Good Weekend

It's been a good weekend, the October weather so wonderful: this has been the best October ever for weather. Such cool mornings and evenings, Indian summer during the day, now marvelous! Freddy's birthday is tomorrow. We wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The Hudsons are a happy group of people.

61

I turn 61 today but don't think too much about it. It's the even ones you think about---the 60, 65, & 70.

The Southern Fall

Each autumn I get tricked into thinking that maybe, just maybe, the earth where I live will not change ever again---that it will remain October forever. The cool mornings and evenings, the bearable daytime warmth in Alabama’s Indian Summer, football season, the start of a new school year, the glory of the Southern Fall with festivals, mule days and festive eating, why shouldn’t it be this way from now on? But it doesn’t last. The seasons continue revolving and before you know it the Fall of 2010 will be just another memory just like all the rest that came before. If I could be left anywhere within the 365 days that the earth takes to circle that yellow body in the sky, it would now, in October, in the Southern South.

The Beginning of October

The beginning of October is always a triumph because this is my favorite month of the year. It was almost cold this morning before warming up to the low 80's. This is the glorious time of year.