Fall in Texas

Fall in Texas comes about six weeks later than"up north." We are having a beautiful fall here this year.

I missed the fall color in Wisconsin....I was a little bit early for full color...or maybe it was a little bit late. I missed the fall color in Washington too. I saw a lot of gold color on the trees driving through Montana in late October.

Here now, we have it all, reds, golds, oranges, yellows, and greens. It is so pretty driving through town on my way to work. The weather has been really fall-like. It's been in the 50's in the daytime and down to the 30's or low 40's at night. There's lots of sunlight and I am hanging my clothes out to dry ever since I got back. No dryer for me!

It's the second Sunday in Advent today. I am trying to keep Advent everyday. It's hard here though without worship every day. However I have pledged not to rush Christmas. And not to rush out of Christmas either on December 26th. There are two things I noticed about the Dallas area when I moved here 39 years ago. The first was the fences. Everyone has privacy fences and I thought that was so strange (I still think so). The second thing that I noticed was on December 26th all the Christmas trees are out on the curbs to be picked up....and all Christmas decorations are stowed away. I try to keep Christmas going through Epiphany, but it feels kind of corny to do that here. I have renewed my resolve to keep it going this year.