Most of you know that I live in Minnesota.  We have the distinction of having the most extreme weather conditions of anywhere in the world.  In other words, the range of our temps from our winter colds to our summer highs is more than anyone else experiences.

This week (actually in about 72 hours), we transitioned from summer to fall.  Monday I rode my bike home from work in 85 degree heat with high humidity.  Tuesday night we recieved 8 inches of rain (all of which I swear ended up in my son's basement), Thursday's HIGH was 45 degrees, and Thursday night we had snow showers and a low of 28.  Northern Minnesota received 8 inches of snow and had blizzard conditions.

I LOVE the 4 seasons we experience - I just wish we wouldn't shift seasons in a matter of hours!

The fall colors are gorgeous, however, so I will go out this weekend and enjoy them - after sopping up more water from our son's basement.  [He sure knows when to go on vacation.  This is the second time he's been gone and hubby and I have had to dry out his basement.]

Fall up here always brings pretty colors; crisp, clean air; apple picking; wood splitting; and cool bike rides.  It is a wonderful time of the year!

I love teh four season weather in New York too. However, the weather has been scary a sof late. In the last few years, 80s and 90s ahve been the norm. When 70s and 60s are what shoudl be normal in thsi climate (in the summer). For fall, I remeber that wehn I was a small girl we would have brilliant foliage, but now all I am seeign is browna nd some yellow. Not to mention that it was 80 degrees this week (very freaky for the middle of october). In other regions thismay be normal but not here. On top of that for two months they promised rain and we nevr got it. New york is suposed to get a good deal of rain, especially the little island I live on. Global warming....it's so sad how people here insist on using the air conditioner twenty four hours a day, when in other countries it's unheard of. Come on this is the north! Even when it was 60 degrees in the summer, people ould us etheir AC!. I wish we coudl have autumn back. I feel like thsi is summer weather from when I was a child.

Whoo hoo!  We're heading up north for Saturday.  The trees should be at their max color.  Son's basement was reasonably dry tonight so we felt we could leave it until Sunday. 

It should be a gorgeous day for a drive and walk in the woods.  Everyone behave for Sakina - I'll be back on Sunday.

The weather hear is confusing, last sunday it was about 95 degrees, tuesday was in the 50's, today it 48 so we finally turned the heater on.
we didn't have any rain the past week,
but it is

Ahhh!! Chili pepper stole my weather!!!!!! I'm surpised you're not complaining about the New York rain though.  Ok thats it...I'm challenging you to a  dual...jk. Enjoy it and remember our suffering -_-.

Autumn is my favorite time of year.  Since the winter is approaching, I try to rollerblade as much as possible!

BB- That's one crazy season shift!  Did all of the leaves fall because of that freeze?

I'm glad that you had a nice time, BB- and I do have to agree with you that there have been a lot of extreme temp. changes this year.  I'm here in PA, and we have been experiencing some strange weather swings.  In the past week we have been from a high of about 80 to a low of 38, it really reaks havoc on the body!  The autumn season is so beautiful here, I love the changing of the leaves and the clean, crisp air- but it is also a very short-lived season, it won't be long before winter eats it up...then on into the snow, sleet and ice...yikes!  Last winter we were plagued with ice storms that left us without power for days, hope that's not the case again this year, although we are prepared with a generator this year if it is!  So chances are that we will never lose power again now that we have a back-up plan, you know how it goes! 

Oh ChilliPepper, I wa shoping the dule would involve a braid fight -_- jk.

Btw we're suppose dot have a "polar rollercoaster" this winter, so get thsoe warm clothes out.