FIRST FROST

Fall is my favorite season.  The only bad thing about it is that it comes just before my least favorite season, but maybe that's why I like it.  When we know bad weather is ahead, it's always good to have a few nice days before it comes.  And we've been having a nice fall season here in central Texas.  Trees are just now turning colors, but that means the leaves will be gone before long.  It's one of those enjoy it while you can things because we get our first freeze tonight.  That first frost always sneaks up on me, but this year I knew it was coming.  That means I had to spend most of the morning getting potted plants moved inside to the patio room.  That also means I'll be sore as a pack mule from doing it.

I'm definitely a plant person, like all kinds of them including cactus.  Texas is home to lots of them, but I've only got a few dozen in pots that have to come inside.  But I've got quite a few plants, just moved close to a hundred of them, and some of them are blooming.  But next comes winter, and I need to get my mind adjusted to that.  Winters are always mild here in the hill country.  Some folks around here don't think so, but I moved down here from the Oklahoma panhande.  Winters there can be miserable affairs - wind, snow, ice, blizzards, that sort of thing.  But here in the hills, it hardly ever snows.  We get some wind, but it's nothing like the panhandle winds, and we don't even have much ice here.  Like I said, winters are mild.  I get amused on days like today when folks around town are wearing coats, and it's like 45 degrees today.  To me, that's barely sweater weather.  I'm like the flowers.  Until it freezes, I'll keep acting like it's summer.