There comes a point, at which you can really tell that the year is coming to an end.
Or, at least, the growing season is coming to an end.
The days are getting considerably shorter, and the leaves and vegetation outside are getting that "tired" look that comes with the late fall.
Our growing season here is typically pretty long, and we are still harvesting tomatoes and a few other things. Lettuce and spinach and other greens will keep going until the first frost. The apples are over and done with, and sweeping leaves off the front porch has become a twice weekly event.
But I really do enjoy getting my hands in the dirt!
There's something very rewarding about growing your own food... or at least some of it. Whereas I realize that it's common practice in many parts of the world, in most industrialized societies people have lost direct touch with where their food comes from.
I am grateful that I grew up with a large vegetable garden... even though my parents were not — by any figment of anyone's imagination — "alternative" or hippies. If anything, they were very straight-laced and mainstream. But they were also fed up with the limited selection of fresh veg in 1960s Danish shops, and felt they could do better on their own.
The fall would bring what used to be called "the potato holidays" in Denmark, with its roots literally based on kids getting a week off from school to help bring in the potato harvest. It was always in mid-October. I mostly enjoyed it because it was a great time of the year to be outside! At worst I'd be put to work raking leaves. At best I would just be left in peace to do my own thing.
Of course, part of what comes with this time of the year is a return ot "indoor activities."
As regulars to these pages might have discerned, I am — among many other things — a life-long stamp collector, and fall also meant it was time to pull out my stamp collection and starting working on that again. In Denmark (at least) it was generally not a hobby people paid much attention to during the summer... but come shorter days, wind and rain, there was something appealing about having indor hobbies for the weekends.
I guess people don't really have as many actual hobbies these days, since we spend so much time tied to our phones and other devices, diving down one form of social media or another.
Yes, I still have a stamp collection, even though it has become a very "esoteric" pastime. Hard to believe that just 50 years ago there were an estimate forty million stamp collectors in the US. today, there are only a few hundred thousand, if even that.
In truth, I simply enjoy the changes that seasons bring. I lived for a couople of decades in a part of the world that didn't have four distinct seasons... Just "hot" and "hotter."
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