What Do You Like and Dislike About Autumn?

There is nothing i dislike about autumn. The smell of freshly turned over fields, colors turning that rusty red or brown color, soybean fields turning yellow or orange. Cool morning's mean deer season is approaching.

The only dislike I could think of are the larger than normal spiders that fill the woods with webs.

You can always count on me for a different perspective.

Autumn is about death. The colors are dazzling, it is true, but something else that changes colors while decomposing is a corpse. Nobody thinks that's pretty. Nobody goes on corpse-watching car trips.

Autumn heralds imminent winter, and around here that normally means a miserable, boring, useless, joyless, muddy 4-month passage, one that I have no use for in my older years. And pitch dark at 5 p.m.? No thank you! There's nothing good about winter, but autumn just wants to ring in the winter like it's something to look forward to. Ick.

Now, if you enjoy fall weather (I completely understand), then I would commend you to its mirror image -- spring! You get all the same refreshing temperatures, plus the chance for some severe thunderstorms, plus the bright promise of a long, glorious Carolina summer stretched out before you. Plus lengthening days. Plus the triumph of knowing you've just survived another dying season. What's not to like about spring?

Autumn is to weather what autumn is to life -- a daily reminder that all the good is gone, or that it soon will be.

There.

I enjoy the beautiful scenery as the trees change colors, especially in the mountains. The cooler temperatures, lower humidity and beautiful blue skies are welcome sights as well. The one thing I dislike about fall would definitely have to be the dry spells and boring weather we usually see in October and early November. Of course, we haven’t really had much to look forward to in the weather world this year and winter doesn’t bring much hope either with a Niña setting in.