Wednesday, July 21, 2021

We Need A Little Autumn, Right This Very Minute

Yes, yes, I know what you're all thinking, "IT'S MIDSUMMER, WHY THE HELL IS RON POSTING PHOTOGRAPHS OF AUTUMN?!?!?"

And I'll tell you why...

...because I am so over the horrendous heat and humidity we've been experiencing this summer that I felt the need to share images of a much cooler season.

OH MY GOD, last week was so hot and humid (well over 100 degrees) that I literally thought I would die from spontaneous human combustion after walking just two city blocks. In fact, one day I had to turn around and come home; postponing my errands for that afternoon. The humidity was so intense, it felt as if I were walking through a sea of melted, sticky marshmallows.

This was me that day and exactly how I felt...

The heat we've had this summer reminds me of the summer I spent in Japan. In all my years of living in Florida, I never felt the kind of heat and humidity I experienced in Japan. I adored my two months there, however, I would never go back during the summer season. Never.

I know that most humans idolize summer and wish that it could be summer 12 months out of the year; preferring the heat over the cold. But as difficult as this is to comprehend, I feel about the heat the way many feel about the cold. Heat does to me, what cold does to others. It immobilizes me and makes every muscle in my body ache. Heat to me is pure torture.

Sorry to rant on like this, but heat makes me batshit crazy. I feel like a combination of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis...

Anyway, a few days ago I suddenly thought of the song from the musical Mame, "We Need A Little Christmas" and changed the words to "We Need A Little Autumn."

I found these photographs on a cloud where I store many of my pictures after uploading them from my camera. I had originally planned to share them last autumn, but by the time I decided to post them it was already winter.

Backstory:

At the time that I took these photographs, I was desperately trying to capture the last of our autumn leaves. I took them over a period of about two weekends.

We didn't get as vibrant of an autumn as I would have liked. That is until the very end of the season, when our trees suddenly burst into glorious colors.

Besides the colors, do you know what my favorite thing is about autumn leaves? I love when they start falling off the trees as I'm walking through the park; particularly on a windy day when a hefty gust comes along and makes the leaves leap and swirl, as if they're dancing a ballet.

It's magical!

Please enjoy a little autumn, right this very minute...