I’m perfectly fine with growing the garden , keeping lawn green , not using much heat in the warm autumns moving into warm winter. If you can prepare your own mindset for a mild , wet winter it helps with getting angry or stressed when it’s raining in DJF. At least for me
But seasons are seasons . Of course it’ll cool off in fall and heat up in summer . I’ve just never been able to understand the frost excitedness and wildness and people trying to make me feel badly for missing out
What good is 29 at night and 60 during the day ? I’ve never understood the wildness about frosts in the fall . Kills gardens , makes folks use heat/ burn oil and by noon the windows are down in the truck
Change to what though ? Does it feel like a storm final to a deep, great winter.. or just a function of shorter daylight and no dews leading to fake cold?
People get so excited about fake frosty cold nights . Like it’s a badge of honor . I mean 98% of posters here would take colder daytime highs and elevation snow in marginal events over a fake 29 degree morning in Roctober . It’s such an odd phenomenon these guys get into
Living in an Oak forest and folks can understand why I want a full blowdown here. Take them all.
Last year had zero acorns. This year the small acorn trees masted but all the acorns came down in the Nor’easter. None since thankfully
It was very good 2 weeks ago on some species agreed. But it went to hell in a hand basket in CT over the last week or so other than patches here and there
You always make it out better than it is and that’s ok . There hasn’t been spectacular color this season and the posters here backing that. Enjoy the blinding colors there I guess and wear appropriate eye protection