The Labor Day weekend typically marks the end of summer and what a way to do it here in Boston- gusty winds and the after effects of Hurricane Ernesto have been felt all day- the holiday spirit has literally been dampened! The fact that the Red Sox lost (again) today didn'd make for any better news in Boston. We really have to look for something to cheer us up- and Fall it is going to be!!
This is the time when New England is at its charming best- great warm days, cool nights, the natural beauty of the leaves changing color- it all signals the most heart-warming change of season that I have experienced living here. You await winter with dread, you look forward to the spring as a relief from winter only to be hit by incessant rain, and then some summer days can be really warm. The New England Fall that way is a great balance and has inspired poets, writers and artists for centuries. If only it could inspire the Red Sox to improve on their horrible record, that would be wonderful.
This also signals completion of a couple of years of living in the US- it was at Labor Day two years back that we had landed in Boston, and how time flies- I've graduated from university, Rica's diligently chipping away in her profession but most significantly, we have a baby and a family that we've begun here. In that sense, Boston will remain an integral part of wherever we go and eventually land up. I am looking forward to the Fall here as I would love to do the drives along the highways where we would be able to see and better appreciate the changing seasons that you see here more starkly than anywhere else in the world.
We are moving into the Fall of 2006 and as you can probably make out, I'm really looking forward to it, despite the damp start to it. It is bound to get better!!
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