I went for a little stroll in the park yesterday morning, wearing what is standard sort of garb for a late Canadian October. I got hot. Later in the afternoon, when the temperature rose all of the way to 20C/68F, I didn't need to wear any extra covering at all over my thin shirt.
They used to call this kind of weather at this time of year, Indian Summer, and I Think This is That as per my title. I don't know if they still call it that, for both the word and the use of it probably wade into sensitive areas. Still, I haven't heard another term for this phenomenon, and you know what I mean by it. It doesn't occur every year, but we are in for a few very fine days this year.
Many trees were bare in the park, and many others were close to it, but these two trees were still both looking rather splendid. As a matter of fact there was still some green on the first tree. I like its wishbone shape too.
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Indian Summer it is...though my plants on the porch are really confused. I do like wearing layers of clothes and shedding them through a day. Then back snug into them at night again. Great you've still got some color and some trees with leaves!
We did all sorts of outside work yesterday.
I was thinking about that, too! I've been calling it Second Summer in my mind. For what that is worth!
You can also call it St Luke's Little Summer. I think it's around the feast day. Beautiful pictures there.
Next week is to warm up even more around here though we will be heading southwest to PA mountains to see the leaf colors there and meet up with friends for several days.
I love this time of year, and you have captured it very well. I think it's still OK to call it Indian Summer.
I can't think of another term for it either. We had a long-lasting summer but are now firmly into fall.
I miss these scenes here. Thank you for sharing yours. Gorgeous!
It has warmed up a bit here. (At least it has stopped snowing). Our views are fine, but I always enjoy the little glimpses of the view from other corners of the world.
Hasn't it been wonderful. I worked out in my garden of planters all morning.
The politically correct term seems to be "second summer". We looked it up.
This is beautiful... Sigh. No fall colors here in Hawaii, I'm afraid.
I think we may be ahead of you in the leaf department. Most of our trees are bare.
These are pretty.
We call it Indian summer, but then always pause because it seems wrong. I like the "second summer" that someone here recommended, but I can just imagine using the phrase and then having to explain that it's the term to replace Indian summer. Ha. We, too, had a second summer over the weekend and we got lots of yardwork done and had all the windows open and I wore dresses and it was glorious. Back to a chillier reality starting tomorrow, I guess.
Second summer fits it.
I've always called it Indian Summer, too and until someone yells at me, I probably will because Native American summer is too clunky and besides, it's not all that inclusive either. Second summer is probably more PC but less accurate because a second summer would be a) hotter and b) longer. A short week or so of 60s and 70s is neither hot nor long -- but it's definitely delightful!
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