Pumpkin Toss

The sun is now touching the horizon at 7 p.m., and the nights are cool. Mornings are downright cold - down into the 40s! The early dew is heavy and will send shivers through your body. Then of course, you find it was all just a game as the sun gets on up and brings the thermometer up with it. But then comes 7 o'clock again and the sun is partly hid.

Grass grows green and great - it's bluegrass and fescue, mostly and they are cool weather grasses. Trees haven't turned yet, dogwoods are dragging, looking a little distracted, kind of like they're tired of leaves. First Christmas decorations have already been reported, the big busy boxes in the strip malls are looking a little distracted, kind of like they're tired of inventory.

Evening comes again now, and a chilly breeze turns the delivery of autumn color in front of a church here in Hickory into a Pumpkin Toss as the sun splashes sunsets high into the sky, high and bright like it's trying to get our attention and tell us something.