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However, I found no spiders today, thank goodness, but I did manage to come across this cat on a Sourwood tree that has began changing color. 
I tell ya, I am ready for autumn and a little of winter too. Of course depending on the upcoming winter, I may change my tune but that is yet to be dealt with. 
Working 9hrs. a day in a textile dye house with all that heat and steam off the machinery, plus 90+ degrees of heat outside makes for a rough life some days. Thanks for the comment Doug and if you do move south, you may have less snow but it is still just as cold. 
I like it because its much cooler, especially at night when you can leave the window open and get some fresh cool air while snuggling under some homemade quilts with just your nose sticking out. Just think of the cool dry air, the colorful autumn leaves, the fall array of wildflowers and not to mention those big fat colorful spiders hanging in the trees, waiting to crawl across your forehead. 
(stop your whining Doug) Thanks steve, while we are taking pictures of ice crystals you will be posting cool insects & flowers I have a lot of fond memories of winter. Mostly back when I was growing up but for some reason I still like it. When I was a boy growing up in East Tennessee, I remember how beautiful the moon illuminated the snow covered ground and the stars looked so bright and wonderful against a winters sky, not to mention the long walks in the woods when it was snowing. It was so quiet that you could hear the flakes of snow sometimes, as they settled on the dead autumn leaves and after my walks there was the joy of returning home for supper in the dim dusk of a winters late afternoon and finding it warmed by an old woodstove. There is a wonderful peacefulness to winter and she can embrace one in her arms if they will let her. Then of course Santa Claus comes in the winter time too!Winter is the worse season of all time.
. I love my summers, but they seem so short in comparison with the rest of the cold year.
