It must be Autumn

 When Orion is rising in the pre-dawn light...

You may have to expand the photo to see the constellation well... but I'm thrilled with how much better phone cameras are.  Mine's about a year old, but it was such a huge improvement over the last one that I keep trying these "night" shots.

Still, Orion was a huge marker of the seasons for me, growing up.  He would be sailing across the Southern sky in the evenings in November and December when we would be driving back from the various grandparent visits.  Mom would get us kids singing campfire songs as we traveled, and there would be Orion, in the sky, pacing us.

But today, he was rising in the 6 a.m. hour, and that indicates about where we are in the calendar... mid-September, the start of Autumn.

As if to go along with my buddy Orion, the temperature is cool, in the 53℉ (11.7℃) range, to start the day.  Later it will rise, says the weather man, but I have time to do a grocery run and prescription pick up, and still have decent temperatures for exercise outdoors, after.

How Fall-ish does it feel?

It feels like jeans!  So, I put on my fresh pair, straight from the dryer, and rejoiced that they zipped comfortably.  I wore them to the grocery store / pharmacy, and changed into shorts for my interval training.

It was beautiful down by the lake, where I went to run.  I fired up the ancient Garmin watch to give me run/walk cues, even if it doesn't sync any more.  

And I ran/walked intervals of 1 minute run to 1 minute walk, all the way around the lake, and included the tail beyond the main dam face.  It was a pleasant, day, what I call a 3-dimensional day because of how trees and buildings seem to pop right out at one.

The tops of the trees are starting to turn yellow, and the lake was smooth.  I was not lonely out there doing my thing... seems like everyone who isn't in school or at a job is enjoying this fine weather.

I covered a little over 5K, 3.26 miles, and stretched at a convenient picnic table near where I had parked Dexter (my car).  

Such a sense of peace is filling me this morning.  A gift I acknowledge and accept.

May my fellow Spark refugees also find that sense of inner peace.

Let us live this one and only Wednesday, September 15, 2021 we shall ever be given, best can do, wherever we are in our lives.  And that "best can do" is enough.  We are where we are meant to be, today, and each day as it arrives.

For life is good!  Spark on!  ✨💖🎇🔥