Monday, March 8, 2010

Autumn

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The Season

autumn
autumn air
autumn day
autumn dusk
autumn rain
beginnning of autumn, late autumn
colder nights, cooler nights
first rain
Indian summer
morning fog
Santa Ana wind (late autumn, early winter)
Standard Time
summer's end
Sky and Heavens
Andromeda
autumn light
autumn sky
autumn wind
autumnal equinox
autumn star (Fomalhaut)
Cassiopeia
dark after work
early dark
great square of Pegasus
harvest moon
hunter's moon
Leonids (Nove 17-19)
moon (in all its phases)
Orionids (Oct 21 & 22)
Pisces
Saturn at first light
shortening days, shorter days
Spiral Galaxy
warm winds (early)
wind in dry leaves
Mountains, Fields and Ocean
autumn sea
brush fires, wild fires
California sagebrush / cowboy cologne
dead grass
dry fields, brown fields
dry giant rye
dry grass
dry stream beds
dry waterfalls
falling leaves
harvest, harvesting
Flowers and Plants
apples
aster
changing leaves
chrysanthemum
corn stubble
coyote melon / coyote gourd / stinky gourd
cranberries
first fallen leaves
gingko trees
gourds
grass seed
green oak apples (wasp galls)
green toyon berries
Hong Kong orchid tree (blooming)
Indian corn
leaf litter
maple leaves
Mexican elderberry (dying back)
milkweed (seed pods split, silky fibers)
morning glories
nuts
pearly everlasting
pumpkins
red leaves
ripening persimmons
root vegetables
rose hips

silk floss tree (blooming)
soap root fibers
squash
sugar bush berries
sycamore leaves
Birds and Animals
Canada goose
crickets
dragonflies
grasshoppers
gray whale migration (starts end of Nov)
horned grebe
migrating birds
monarch butterfly migration
red-throated loon, common loon
squirrels gathering
white-crowned sparrow
white pelican
Human Affairs
All Soul's Day, Halloween
back-to-school (book covers, new teachers, school supplies, school clothes)
basketball season (start of)
Christmas catalogs
college midterms
country fair
El Dia de los Muertos
Election Day (Nov)
football
Labor Day
pumpkin pie
Thanksgiving
turkey dinner
Veterans' Day
waterfowl game season
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