The Pecan Park Eagle

Can the changing of the leaves be far away?

It’s back. The first day of the real new year slipped quietly through our fingers yesterday. September’s here again. The time for fresh beginnings is at hand. – And so – what truly is so special about the month of September,  anyway?

1) School Starts Again with the Same Old Great Expectations.

2) The Baseball Season Pennant Races are Wrapping Up.

3) The World Series will be here soon.

4) Football season is back – and ready to fill our weekend social calendars with tailgates and ESPN TV game marathons.

5) Yard raking in Houston will commence with the coming of the first “norther” that bears both the blow and cool power to dip this far south and stun the leaves of our deciduous trees.

6) It’s time to see Halloween costumes on our store shelves. By the middle of September, move that stuff over for the Thanksgiving Holiday and Christmas Season items. – Happy New Year, Everybody!

7) After months of Houston Life at the rim of Dante’s Inferno, the possibility, if not the probability, of cooler weather is again on the board. Prepare to relish the first morning, whenever it does arrive, that we all wake up to temperatures in the 60’s to 40’s and that more comfortable one-third of the year that makes the other two-thirds of Houston’s weather bearable.

8) Think outside the Houston box. Maybe this will be the year you finally fly to New York City during the first two weeks of October and rent a car to drive up the Hudson River Highway to West Point to see what a real changing of the leaves during the fall season looks like. – It’s a real breath-taker, if you do, and a trip you will never either regret or forget.

9) While you are in upstate New York, amble over to Cooperstown for a quiet and beautiful trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In my book, it’s the best time to go there to the shrine of our greatest game.

10) Enjoy Labor Day, September 2, 2013, in love and peace, with family and friends. Like all our other days, it only got here by itself, and we only get to enjoy it from moment to moment, one day at a time, as the clock ebbs and flows from the only time that ever truly exists for us – in the ever-present here and now.

Happy Labor Day, Everybody! 🙂