First touches of fall

Fall is here -- it sneaked in while I was being vetted for the jury on Monday -- but it really doesn't feel like it yet. The temperatures are still in the upper 70s and lower 80s, with lows only in the 60s. Not at all fall temperatures in the upper Midwest. But this is good, because corn and soybeans are delayed from the late spring and floods, and this will let farmers get in those crops.

There are ways we can tell that fall is getting here, though. Our bush that turns bright scarlet is starting to get some red highlights, and the first newspaper story about a vehicle hitting a deer appeared the day before yesterday. Time to start slowing down on the roads in our neighborhood that go through the woods; I don't want a repeat of my deer collision a couple of years ago!