Changes:

or rambling because I refuse to address the real issue :-P

'Tis the season for change.

Fall has set in with the first signs of frosty mornings and colourful leaves. The hummingbirds are long gone and the last of the tomatoes have been picked from the plants.

The casemate that I shared for the summer in the Garrison District closed yesterday and I gathered all my things from it last night. I will miss the place and the social activity that it provided. Fortunately this week is a busy one with something on for every evening and classes all day on Saturday.

Another sign of the season was changing the stovepipe in the studio. Inevitably it rots out after awhile and wood heat is the only heat source in the studio for the winter months. Winterizing has started.

I am seeing changes in people too with the change in season, the return to school for some, leaving summer vacation behind for others. Changes in the way we dress, an extra layer, woolly somethings added, or for the brazen, adding a colourful scarf and hat to an outfit. Attitudes are changing too, we seem to be calming down and leaving our summer bravado behind as we prepare to hunker both into ourselves and our eventual snow-covered abodes.

A lot of folks that I have spoken with lately really hope that we have a another month or two of warm weather reaching into the high 60's or low 20's depending on wither they are Fahrenheit or Celsius minded. Our summer was Hobbes-ian: "short, nasty, and brutish" with far to much cool and wet weather followed by what seemed far too much heat and humidity and suddenly a few brief days of near ideal conditions for the first weekend of September.

Upcoming adventures on my agenda for this week include getting involved with Fredericton's Pride 2010 planning, going to the season opener for the Women & Business Network, the opening of the Fredericton Arts Alliance Summer Residency Programme show at City Hall on Wednesday night at 5, and teaching.

And finally, an early Happy Birthday to a friend who will soon be entering his mid-life crisis in style. That's the way to do it darling!