It’s October 2nd and even though the government is shut down and the nasty republicans are to blame, fall still hasn’t arrived yet. I have been waiting for the fall color for weeks. We were out this weekend and it looked like all the leaves we going from green to brown. I haven’t seen any major color. This picture was taken last year when we had some really nice color. I keep wondering if we will see any color this year at all! And no, I won’t be posting about the government shut down. There’s enough of that on other sites.
Fall Is Here
Fall started yesterday at 4:44 PM. Today was the first full day of fall. The temperatures were very cool this morning. I think it was like 50 degrees. It was crisp and definitely felt like fall. During the day it only got up to 70 degrees but the humidity was low and there was a cool breeze most of the day.
Fall is my favorite season. I love the crisp nights, low humidity warm days, the trees changing colors, the leaves falling and all the holidays we experience between now and the end of the year. Mostly I love the colors I see in the trees. Each year is a bit different. Sometimes the rain fall, temperatures, etc. are just right to make for a beautifully colorful fall. I’m not sure how this year will turn out but I’ve already started to see signs of a quick color change. There’s one tree in my parking lot that changes quickly. I checked it out today and sure enough most of the leaves had changed color and started to fall. I thought it was a little soon for the leaves to be falling. The color is almost on track but the falling leaves is too soon. I want them to stay on the trees to enjoy them. But you can’t stop nature. The trees will do what they are going to do with the conditions they’ve been given. I just hope I see some really colorful trees this year. I don’t want them to turn brown too soon.
What’s your favorite season? Why?
IOS Update
Yesterday Apple updated it’s IOS to 7. I didn’t download it on the first day because I was simply too busy. I installed IOS7 earlier this evening on both my iPad and my iPhone 5. It looks beautiful and apps load and work smoothly. The color scheme is cool. I love the new icons, especially the ones with lots of new colors on them. Those apps that have updated their look, look great on the new OS. It’s a really nice update to the OS. However, I have already discovered a few things that I do not like. Maybe they will be fixed in future updates.
Podcasts-In this update you can no longer listen to your podcasts through the music app. You must download the Podcast app to hear your podcasts. I really hate this because the Podcast app sucks big time. You have to jump through so many hoops to get your podcasts, listen to them, and then delete them. I really don’t like the Podcast app.
Email-There seems to be a glitch which I’m sure others are finding. When I started up the email app it brought down every single email that is still on all the email servers out there. I have 1176 messages. However, once I go in and read some and delete some, each mailbox individually says there are no new emails but the main mailbox still shows I have 1176 unread messages. That will need to be fixed because as obsessive as I am, I can not stand to see those little red circles telling me there are email messages to read. Ugh!
Security-I don’t have the new iPhone 5s with the new fingerprint recognition thing. I have the iPhone 5 with the basic security features. Maybe I’ve selected something wrong but on IOS7, I have to have a passcode now. I never had one before and I really don’t like swiping my phone and then having to put in a passcode. Maybe there’s somewhere to change that in settings but I haven’t found it.
Update: I found the setting in Settings where I can turn off passcode. Problem solved.
Mass Shooting
There has been another mass shooting. This time in Washington D.C. 13 people were killed including the gunman. Don’t worry though, none of the gun laws will be changed. The 2nd Amendment freaks will keep their guns and nothing will change. It never does.
Instead, enjoy this photo of chardonnay grapes. We helped harvest these grapes on Saturday at our favorite winery. If my count is right, this is the 9th year I’ve harvested.
Beautiful Morning
I was up early this morning and saw this sky. I just had to take a picture of course.
