I took a quick trip to Denver last Friday. It was a lovely day. Temps in the high seventies and blue skies. But as I met with a client the reality of fall was registering in the trees. They never lie.
In Colorado The Aspen's Have Started to Glow
It made me think about how reversed everything is for us in Arizona.
People in Arizona take pride in being contrary. And I'm not even talking about our goofy politics.....
The rest of the nation changes their clocks twice a year for daylight savings time, not us here in AZ. Here we say "the heck with that! Why would we want to stay up an extra hour to experience searing heat?"
For us it is just better to crank up the old AC and call it a day.
When fall comes you (the rest of America) eagerly anticipate the "foliage". You know that you'll be raking soon. And right on the tail end of the falling leaves comes the snow. You feel a little extra bite in the air each evening, AZ gets temperatures that are finally coming down to reality.
Here with perfect days come perfect nights complete with the fragrance of piñon burning in fireplaces.
You put the bicycles away, we pull 'em out and oil up the chains.
Your dogs have been running around with you all summer and are fit as a fiddle, ours have gotten fat as they have been hiding out with the rest of us indoors (believe it or not we have to be careful when we walk dogs here as the asphalt gets so hot it actually burns their feet - PetSmart sells walking booties!). So when fall arrives we all pile in the van to take the dogs to Dreamy Draw and they can start to lose summer blubber.
As the rest of North America starts to look for covers to their lawn furniture, Phoenicians venture out to the back porch to clean off the furniture.
I always find it funny to see Target clearing out the outdoor stuff right when we need it. They have to make room for halloween stuff. Target's garden center starts folding up right when we start thinking about planting bulbs.
Everyone loves the fall - but I think we have plenty of justification to love it more. So for the rest of you folks - enjoy your next few months of "indoor time". As for us in AZ, well we are gonna be a bit hard to find for a few months. It is our time again. Time to ride bikes, hike, and just get the heck out of the house!
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