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As any Michigander knows, summer ends and fall begins on Labor Day weekend. Yes, I know the calendar says otherwise, but (as they say) location is everything and we’re too far north to get much of a longer warm-weather season.
True, we had a few very warm days after the holiday—as we have had in the past—but it’s a farewell song. Akin to a performer ending their concert and then, with the audience loudly applauding and yelling ‘encore’, offering a final ballad.
Then it’s onto the new season. The time of colorful leaves, cooler days and nights, the rattling of the dry dead corn stalks, the taste of fresh-pressed apple cider, the fields of ripening pumpkins, and the hard frost that puts an end to the last remnants of the growing season.
The change from summer to fall
So true!