Something Amazing!

The most wonderful thing is happening right now, as we speak....

The leaves are changing colours.

I noticed it yesterday for the first time. The leaves, which up until now have been dizzyingly copious shades and patterns of green, have suddenly got the most stunningly beautiful red edges. I was intrigued. Why had THAT happened? I had never seen such a colour in leaves before... except in that Virginia Creeper that grows outside of Dar and Kim's house when the season starts to turn. Wait a minute... (Slowly lighting bulb over my head... wait for it... wait for it... DING!) Oh!!! Oh!!! It must mean that the leaves are starting to change! But its not even the end of September yet... that shouldn't happen until late October, should it?

I'll confess to being many things, and at times smart is one of them. Just not right now, in regards to this, I suppose. It took me far too long to figure out that the change of season might come so late in the year in the Southwest of New Mexico because of the fact that it is a desert, which I am no longer in. Of course it would get cold earlier here, aren't I always freezing my toes off already? It makes sense that the leaves would change earlier than I am used to.

Upon reflection into my blatant stupidity, I came to the following conclusions: It is reasonable and logical for it to be a difficult one for me to figure out, because this concept of leaves changing colours is so foreign to me. My life has been spent in a place where the leaves don't really change colours all that much. They turn yellow or brown on the tree because they are dead... and they stay there until the wind blows them off, which is a process that begins quickly; but it is not uncommon to see last years hangers-on when the tree is blooming the following spring. I have never really seen trees turn red. (Except in those mythical things called TV shows. But we all know they are faked anyway.) And never as a gradual movement of red from the outer edges. Leaves are green... until they are dead and then, seemingly overnight, they are yellow. And it happens so late where I'm from. We wore shirt sleeves until late October, Samhain is generally the first day that its chilly enough to wear a sweater or a lightish jacket. A SWEATER OR A LIGHTISH JACKET! I'm bundled in Stephen's heaviest coat whenever we leave the house... and sometimes while I'm in the house too. Thanksgiving is really the time for throwing yourself into piles of raked leaves, not September.

So that is my exciting news for the day... the leaves have just started their turning. My first change of season in this far far colder place. Its stunningly beautiful. Trees with red leaves. Wow. I wonder what they will look like when they are entirely red, and how long the leaves will stay on the trees before they fall. I guess I'll be finding out soon enough.

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On another, completely different note, I have a song I want to share with you all. Everyone give a great big resounding facetious 'Thank you' to Stephen for bringing home the movie that this came from, and for singing it all night last night just to listen to me giggle madly. It may be the funniest song I have heard in a long time... and I rolled on the floor laughing about it all night. It makes me think of Christie... and I can't get it out of my head. I'll be singing it to Tristan when he calls me today.

(Update: Don't try to click on the video... it is not working. And anything else I post to share it with you will just disappear soon anyway... so go HERE and type in Spider Pig ... and giggle madly.)