Fall

For most other areas of the states this would have been written in early September, but here in Vegas it has finally given us a cooler time that sets our minds thinking to thinking of this time of year - Fall. Granted that doesn't mean we'll stay this cool, but we'll take it while we can get it.

To some people the onset of the fall season can be depressing. After a brilliant blaze of glory (in the northern states) the trees then go bare. The clouds seem to hang out more often so the sun isn't shining so much, and it just seems harder to get out of bed. They see fall as an ending, or an approach to the end. It is the approach to the end of the year, but is that always a bad thing?

No, its not. We all know that we need down time, time to rest and rejuvenate. Wouldn't you think something that is as big as the earth and as hard working wouldn't need time down. Just think of it as the earth curling up in a big soft blanket, in some areas that blanket is snow. It is slowing itself down and taking a much needed rest.

It is also plotting and planning for next year and the wonders of spring. Even though I live in Las Vegas and we have flowers year around, it does get chilly and I know when it starts warming up again I really appreciate it. I know when I lived in Michigan and I would look at the trees in the spring and see a faint haze of the most beautiful green that would just one day burst into leaves, a feeling of joy would overcome me.

If we had the same weather year around, you know 75 - 85 and sunny all the time, we wouldn't have moments when we step outside and just stop in our tracks and say OH! at what a beautiful day it is. Yes, we mumble and groan our way through cold and snow, but that OH moment is so worth it. The birds all come back and start singing earlier and earlier in the day. The flowers start poking their heads up with their cheerful colors.

But if we didn't have a fall, those days would all run together and we wouldn't be hit with that OH moment. And when we are hit with those OH moments, it truly makes us appreciate what the earth has to go through to give them to us.

I know, no matter what I say, there will be those that grumble and complain about the cold and the snow, that is human nature. I just hope that when the beautiful days come again, they look at them for the gift they are.

God did a good job with this planet, let's thank Him and show him we appreciate all He did for us.