It just doesn’t feel like fall.\u00c2\u00a0 It hit me as the kidlet and I were hunting up fall leaves for a group collage project at his preschool.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Our neighborhood has been here for 30+ years, so the trees and such are quite mature, despite being in the middle of a city (well, I guess techincally we’re on the edge of two cities, PDX and Lake O, but lets not quibble).\u00c2\u00a0 We also live on the corner of 2 dead end roads with basically pristine Oregon wilderness all around.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, there is a natural preserve park that abuts up to our property.\u00c2\u00a0 So normally there is just no shortage of gorgeous foliage this time of year.\u00c2\u00a0 However, we had trouble finding ANY leaves to cart off to preschool, and the ones we found were truly ugly dead brown crunchy things, not the majestic golden-orange-red colors of autumn.\u00c2\u00a0 The leaves just aren’t changing yet, and they are still alive and well on the tree.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Has it been too wet?\u00c2\u00a0 (come on, its Oregon, its ALWAYS wet ;))\u00c2\u00a0 Not cold enough?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that’s it; mornings have been wet and foggy, and relatively warm.\u00c2\u00a0 We haven’t had those crisp air apple-picking clear day need a sweater mornings — another part of fall that I love and now realize that I have missed.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>~P.D. James<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It just doesn’t feel like fall.\u00c2\u00a0 It hit me as the kidlet and I were hunting up fall leaves for a group collage project at his preschool.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Our neighborhood has been here for 30+ years, so the trees and such are quite mature, despite being in the middle of a city (well, I guess techincally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}