End of the Seasonal Sightings:

'The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It's nice to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own.'

Tove Jansson

One of the reasons I do an 'end' to seasonal sightings is that's it a good way to say goodbye to Autumn, or whatever season happens to be ending.  A last look at the male form surrounded by the sites and colors of the season. End of the seasonal sightings is also a way for me to 'close out' my Autumn file.   I have a folder with sub folders for each of the four seasons, and I like to start fresh each year.  In part, it's because I like to find new and unique images, and also, some images  which grab my attention one year, don't hold the same appeal with the next years comes around.

I love all four seasons, but I think I have a preference for fall and winter.  I many, I love cozy nights and brief stints of hibernation, but the cool and cold weather also energizes me.  Living on the East coast, the summers can get incredibly muggy, zapping my energy when outside.  Although I love the sun, I tend to shorten my walks and runs, and head to shade when it gets especially hot and muggy.

The start of every season is like a new beginning, like having four additional January 1st.  I know many love living in Southern climates, where it's warm all year round, but I love life changes that season changes bring.  Like so many of you, I have four different wardrobes, hats and footwear for almost every possible winter condition.  Winter boots, rubber boots, hiking books and sneakers with treads for whatever I'm walking on.

More than the temperature changes, what I love most are the visual changes.  From my living room, the view outside changes from month to month.  It's never the same for long.  It's like changing a room's paint color or artwork several times a year, without having to spend a penny.  

I think I'm more impacted by visual change, or the lack of, than other people. It's not just the images on FH that I strive to follow the seasons.  I change my table cloth, a couple of cushion covers to match seasonal colors. I even annoyingly switch many of the pictures on my walls, several times a year, to match the holidays and seasons.

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