Yesterday, I hit a couple of places known to have cheap yarn. In the first shop, it was all about back to school. Hey, I got a calculator for $1. No cheap yarn, though.
The second was the Christmas Tree Shop, which handles mostly seasonal stuff. It's the kind of place people go to to get stuff for their shore house or in the summer, to put out party stuff around the pool. I'm sure you see how I can relate. Ahem.
When I walked in yesterday, the first thing I saw was a wall of Autumn and Halloween decorations. Halloween? Don't get me wrong, Halloween has long been one of my favorite holidays. But in July? And yes, I did see a brief skirmish of Christmas decorations but believe this to be always-displayed leftovers from the previous Christmas.
Autumn is my favorite time of year. It can be capricious in Jersey. In late September, a few of the trees will have little blots of red on them. It can also be 80 degrees. Very disheartening, because by then, I'm ready to turn off the a/c for the year. From October through perhaps the first week or two of November, the trees turn and lose their leaves. There are windy days with dark, tumbling clouds. It's exhilarating. It may have even snowed a couple of times, although it won't have amounted to much.
But it's just wrong to even be thinking of it yet. No matter how much I love the cooler weather and the scent of decaying leaves, it's high summer.
With this year's cooler summer and plentiful rain, Jersey is lush with greenery. The marigolds, impatiens, petunias are popping. Sometimes in the morning when I look outside, my windows are blurred with humidity and all I see is a sea of green. It's like living in a badly tended aquarium.
After yesterday's torrential storms, everything feels washed clean and green this morning. The air smells of pine and earth.
It's not nearly time to think of Autumn. Let me still enjoy the summer.
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