Topic: Fall = The Best Season... Who agrees?

[TheCOV]

Is Fall the best season?  Absofreakinlutely!!

[carolecohen]

a poem by A. E. Housman

On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming like a noise in dreams.

Far and near and low and louder
On the roads of earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers marching, all to die.

East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.

Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.

[NorthAndre]

Fall is my favorite season probably because it's packed with the most vacation time and you have the approach of the holiday seasons which are big in my family.  I like the trees changing color, football, and good food usually consumed during the fall.  Surrounded by concrete, I don't usually appreciate it the best until I go home to my parents since my mom is huge into decorating for the seasons, and I'd immediately be hit by the smell of apple pie cooking walking in the door.

[CiNYC]

I love fall and miss it quite a bit.  We have ridiculously nice, warm, sunny weather in SF from September to about mid-November, so I can't complain.  But I always will love October in the midwest/east coast.

There have actually been a couple of days (more noticeable in the East Bay where there are quite a few more trees) where the ground has been slightly covered with leaves and the air just has that crisp cool and the scent of autumn.  Definitely a nice reminder, but then the next morning you wake up and it's hot and sunny and summer all over again.

[Rob Jaques]

I like spring the best. Everyone starts to come outside and is in good spirits. Less clothes are being worn, which in some cases is a good thing and in other cases a not so good one...

It signals freshness and rebirth

[so it goes]

Sienna

Dance, dance
Delicately down
Twisting to the seasons song
Dressed for the ball
Softly you fall
Keeping time ‘til winter’s waltz

[David]

I think we have Christmas and give gifts during December because winter is so depressing. They market Christmas as the "most wonderful time of the year". By February that crap is all over (and that's when we have the highest suicide rate).

[David]

Fall is pretty much over already This weather now sucks.

[C-Dawg]

Fall is pretty much over already

Actually, according to weather.com, the whole state is still in peak:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/fallfoliage/regiondetail/oh3?from=ff_reg_txt

I actually just had the best shooting day of the season yesterday in Toledo. It was gorgeous, sunny, and in the 60's. Colors were peaking, and I'm damn glad I made it out to the Swan Creek Metropark when I did, because there was a sh!tload of wind last night. A good number of those leaves on the trees yesterday may be on the ground today.

Up in my area, there is still great color, and while some trees have already lost their leaves (big winds last night), others are just starting to turn. What I've been noticing is that the outsides of the forests have fewer leaves than the interior neighborhoods in Toledo or areas where the trees are more protected from the wind and/or frost. There's usually some decent color up until the middle of November, then everything turns into gray, Great Lakes winter hell...

Typically, there's a big thunderstorm or wind storm that takes everything that's left down in mid-November, and then sh!t just goes to hell. You might not see a blue sky again until April. Dammit, I hate winter...

[peabody99]

I would agree fall is best IF I was one of those people that went to the Caribbean  or to southern Europe for the entire winter.

[NorthAndre]

I need to dig up some ancient photos I took on a perfect fall day in Ann Arbor.  The tree colors were intense.  They are probably blurry as hell though.

[MyTwoSense]

I would agree fall is best IF I was one of those people that went to the Caribbean  or to southern Europe for the entire winter.

Thats wussup!