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Don't let anyone tell you that Texas doesn't have fall colors! Here are a few shots I took, just with my phone, on my afternoon stroll around my neighborhood today.
Today was sunny, with a brisk breeze out of the north (great for blowing yellow leaves around!) and the temp was about 62F (16C). My walk took a lot longer today because so many people were out working in their yards and we stopped and talked with each other, about the weather, about the upcoming holidays, our yards, that sort of thing.
I worked in my own yard today for about three hours, rebuilding a retaining wall, repositioning some stepping stones, working on establishing a new flower bed for my herb garden I'm planning on planting in the spring, and clearing out brush that was killed by the recent frost.
The day was so incredibly beautiful, and I got a kick out of watching how animated this sort of weather makes my dogs act - they were running and jumping around and the leaves were swirling to the ground and even the local squirrels were acting out!
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Nice! Actually, gray winter days don't bother me. Here Novembers and even Decembers are generally very nice but we have plenty of gray winter days in January and February.
This week has been particularly stunning weather wise - nice crisp sunny fall weather.
Anyway, today is Thanksgiving here in the States. I am enjoying a few cups of coffee before three more generations of family show up at my house in about two hours. The sun is brilliant outside, the fall leaves are swirling in the air, and the highs will be in the mid fifties (about 13C). Perfect sweater weather and a perfect day to spend with family, eating our traditional Thanksgiving feast and then watching a game of football while the kids run inside and out, playing with the dogs, and we sip coffee laced with Kahlua and sample the various desserts everyone's brought.
I set the table (well, actually the tables) yesterday, and I love the setting because it represents much of what is dear to me. The china is my grandmother's from the 1930s - she collected it when she lived in my birthplace, New Orleans, and it is decorated with fleur de lis. The table cloth and napkins are vintage, from England - our family's heritage. The lace runner was a gift from our friends in Belgium - their mother hand knitted this beautiful lace. It represents friends and family far and near.
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Nice! Actually, gray winter days don't bother me. Here Novembers and even Decembers are generally very nice but we have plenty of gray winter days in January and February.
This week has been particularly stunning weather wise - nice crisp sunny fall weather.
Here, as in most of Europe, November and December are exeedingly gloomy. It picks up sometimes in late January, and February can be surprisingly nice and sunny, but cold.
I start to be ready for snow. At least it brightens up the landscape a bit.
A couple days ago, my girlfriend and I went to Da Fu Shan, a mountain/forest park in the Panyu district of Guangzhou. I love that there is stuff like this within 45 minutes of where I live in the center of a city of 15 million people I go here maybe every two weeks or so.
We had our first lowland snow in western Washington yesterday, in fact the first in a couple of years here. I took a walk around the neighborhood to photograph it before it all melts. Some of it looked like frosting on a cinnamon roll. Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr Untitled by kanhawk, on Flickr
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