Seasonal Thoughts

[forestofglory]

September and October are hot months in the Bay Area,the rains haven't come yet and everything is dry. The hills are golden brown. There oaks are dropping acorns. Other people I know in the northern hemisphere are talking about the cool fall days, but we have been having some very hot days.

I don't like when people try to impose the standard four season on the Bay Area we have seasons, but not those four. Yet kids books seem to really harp on those. My kid was asking what this season was called, so I tried to look up what the Ohlone or the Miwok called the season, since surely the Native American's who lived here would have had words for the seasons we really have. But all I found where stuff talking about "Fogest" and other recently coined words. I know that various waves of European colonizers destroyed a lot of the native langues of California, but it feels really stark when I can't even look up a simple word for the seasons.

Normally this time of year is orb spider season. They get really big and there classical webs are all over the place, but this year I haven't seem very many. I wonder if the smoke earlier killed them? What ever it is I miss them.

I have discovered a mango desert place within walking distance of my parents house. It's very good! All there deserts are cool and contain frozen elements which really hits the spot on hot days. I've walked there twice, once with my parents and once with my brother who lives with them. We brought the deserts back and ate them in my parents back yard.

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[lethargic_man]

Answer: By the standard four names, but I remember from teaching English in schools there during my year off there thinking that the pictures of falling leaves illustrating autumn in the schools were inappropriate for the situation there.