The weather is changing and contrary to what Will says, LA does not just have two seasons, Summer and Summer Lite. No, it gets relatively cold here. The afternoons end rather quickly and now I wear a sweater not just because I want to cover up a little, but because I kinda need it.
Autumn makes me happy. It’s always been a season I’ve liked. Perhaps it’s because it marks the start of a new school year and I’ve always been good at school. And while I’m no longer in band and don’t go to tons of football games, it makes me feel like being in the stands and playing “Sons of Westwood” and pop tunes adapted for a marching band. Yeah. Or it makes me anxious to watch late season division and wild card races in baseball. This season my beloved Dodgers will be one of those teams in a tight race, but it’s nice to reminisce on dramatic victories like the one I saw last year on TV.
I took a trip home on Sunday after a really long two-day meeting. I took the family some leftover boxed lunches from the meeting and then relaxed. It was a gorgeous day. I tried to go to church but the Mass was ending when I got there. No, I wasn’t just being really late, they changed the schedule for a special Mass in honor of the 40th anniversary of the parish. I didn’t know about the change ’til I got home. Later in the afternoon I wandered around the neighborhood where I grew up and took some pictures.
I wanted to pretend to be a kid again and play on the swings at my former elementary school, Glendelder, just because it was a really nice day out. However, for the first time all the gates were locked and I couldn’t get in without jumping the fence. I could have done that, but I’m clumsy and would have probably fallen on my ass. Instead of wandering around the playground and familiar corridors where I spent ages 5-12, I returned home to snap pictures of my mom painting and play with the puppy. Poor VR has a small scar above his right eye. My mom says he got it when he fell off her bed. I think he’s adapting our habits and frequent mishaps.
I like the change in weather, but having to go back to school doesn’t have me as excited as it did when I was still at Glenelder. Maybe it’s because I’ve been on campus about 4 times a week since school let out.
what a cute dog! Go Giants!
i like autumn and spring for non extreme weather.
My favorite times of year are now, when the summer is ending and autum begins, and the first few warm days of spring… it’s just a wild coincidence that those two times are also the times that spring training and the baseball playoffs happen.
Why does this make me miss Chicago?
Weird.
“relatively cold”? I am in Ohio…Dios mio.
cindy, enjoy it! living in a place with one of the world’s most stable climates (read: the only season that’s really any different is “hurricane”), i’ve been nostalgic for that crisp, cool air that signals my favorite time of year. i am asking my family to send me pictures of fall leaves and fall activities, but somehow i don’t think it will compare. i think next year at this time i’m going to have to visit home, maybe for halloween.
Come to Denver around January 15 and we’ll show you “relatively cold.”
Nebur,
Don’t bring any of your pro Giants propaganda here!
Irasali,
In Chicago it really is extreme. I’d be miserable.
Joel,
I think the beginning of the baseball season had me really excited this year as did last year’s end. This season I’m sorta “meh” about it. Damn Dodgers.
Elena and Luis,
I know 50 is hardly cold for you two, but it is for me when I’m used to highs in the mid-60s for most “winter days.” That’s why I wrote “relatively” because if you’ve lived in LA your entire life, like I have, then your perception of cold would be highly skewed. With that said, I have been to Boston in late November, New York in late December/early January, and Chicago inlate February/early March. I have experience “real” cold and I don’t like it.
Kitti,
I’ll take some pictures for you, though autumn in LA means something different. I love Halloween!
I just noticed today that fall is here.
Temperatures have been peaking at the high 80′s as opposed to the lower 90′s. Can’t wait till winter when we hit the lower side of the 80′s bracket in the farenheit scale.
No school for me tho, yet.
R.