Weather Update

Contrary to what we might have thought last year when we moved to the Hill Country, this region does have an autumn. In fact, we have been experiencing autumn for the past few weeks--warm days, cool nights, and insects very busy as if they could sense the coming of winter. And even autumn color! We do not see the abundance of red that we loved so much in New England, but in fact deciduous trees have been changing colors, just like they are supposed to. All of these signs in nature are a reminder that last year with its oppressive drought was an anomaly.

Now, with two plus weeks to go of the season of autumn on the calendar, the weather has turned cold, and we are already experiencing more chill than all of last winter after moving from Connecticut. The most recent storm actually dumped snow on Houston--and that is a rarity! Much to the disappointment of school children in our area, there was no snow here, but the unusual precipitation did make garner a story on the NBC nightly news tonight.

Right now I am so glad that I did not throw out all my winter woolens when I moved south!