When I moved to North Georgia, I noticed that there was a certain breeze that arrived every year around September 1.<\/p>\n
A breeze that was not fresh like the breezes of spring, or humid\u00a0like the hot breezes of summer.<\/p>\n
A breeze that bites with ice.<\/p>\n
It’s distinct from\u00a0the lovely breezes that start cooling off the house at the end of August. Those are just like small electric fans, moving the air, softening it.<\/p>\n
No, the September 1 breeze gets your attention. It is sharp.<\/p>\n
You run around and shut all the windows in a hurry. You make sure there’s enough blankets on the bed. You consider turning on the heater. You have a cup of hot tea after dinner.<\/p>\n
Fall has arrived.<\/p>\n
Yes, there will still be days above 80 degrees, and there’s still time to take one last swim in the lake. You can’t put the citronella candles in storage just yet; the bugs will be mating and hatching even now.<\/p>\n
But the season has changed irrevocably.<\/p>\n
The breeze came\u00a0tonight.<\/p>\n
As I closed the windows, I felt another pang looking out in the driveway. We just started up the Jeep today after three long months when it sat there\u00a0unused. The lost summer.<\/p>\n
I only bought my third bag of peaches yesterday. We didn’t even make it to the community pool once.<\/p>\n
Doesn’t matter what you did or did not do. The breeze will come, whether you are ready or not.<\/p>\n
Close the windows.<\/p>\n
Today’s\u00a0penny is a 2008, for the first year that I wrote\u00a0in my naturalist’s notebook on September 1: “Air feels different…”<\/p>\n
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