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Show High Time Long Live Tho Fall Memories By FLORENCE BITTNER The best intentioned do-gooder do-gooder would be hard pressed to improve upon our autumn weather. Mark Twain said everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it, but up to now, the less done with our Indian Summer, the better. FALL IN Salt Lake City makes up for our wet cold springs. Fall also makes up for hot dry summers and cold winters; well scratch cold winters, but the rest of the year's deficiencies are more than compensated with the lingering death of summer. There isn't the urgency about autumn that we feel in spring when things are waking from their winter sleep. We're in a hurry then to get the leaves raked, garden gar-den plots dug and ready for planting, roses pruned and fed so we will see leaves and flowers. In spring kids are counting days of school and awaiting summer vacation. SPRING ISN'T usually up to its promise anyhow. A few mild and wonderful days then we're back into jackets. Sometimes into June we still have wet cold weeks, and we keep hurrying the season along. But in the fall, there is no hurry. We only have winter ahead, so let's hang onto what we've got. The colors are mild and lovely. The last few flowers are cherished and enjoyed. en-joyed. Everyone comments on the weather and r YOUNG MOTHFek autumn to help f, them to having L i under foo, aga C. season of shoo,g lh ' side, they begin8, their activities m2 to takes so . Fal1 's for fathers begin with the , S ' baseball and mme 2 into football and detr k time. ' AUTUMN ISN'T a:i doors, however tk something special ab;!:' turm, evenings wher, ihf.;: chill ,n the bree. a t' feels just about right moon looks far awava,V; different. Why is the summer mv much closer than theaJ.L moon? This time o ihe',"." there seems little the pale yellow m j.,:' isn't hard to imagire 1 nding high in its light. " 3 YARD WORK in th- hasn't the interest ihaii, fain fa-in the spring. There's finality about putting ae garden to sleep which t little to call us out of doori" Planting tomatoes is mm more enticing than puling frozen vines, and I hate to part with my marigolds t there is a single veilov bloom. ONE YARD chore kids jo willingly is rake up leaves but who wants to stuff ib into bags? Leaves are In j jumpin in, racing throws j burrowing in. " ij I wish we could burn leaves a We miss pan of fall since k a have become conscious si aa tj pollution. The smell of baaing baa-ing leaves has signalled the coming of autumn as far bai as man has memory. GOOD WEATHER is jus: about gone. When mm take down jack-o-lamems as; put up turkeys, 1 know ifs j time to part with the pe-tunias. pe-tunias. But right now it seems ni like an awful long wavsit spring. |
