It is a toss up between Near Normal and Mildly Wet this week. We had almost 1" of precipitation (which is slightly above our yearlong average per day) but the ground and basement are only moist, not sopping. Dews and fogs have been happening. Temperatures have been cooler than summer hot but typical for early autumn. We're at the point when we believe it will not crack 85-90°F now for the rest of the calendar year.

Trees are continuing their change to autumn, with the sick or stressed trees (this year due to too much moisture overall) losing about 1/3 of their leaves already. The walnut is starting to drop leaflets.

The hummingbirds are still around and eating well. Crickets, slugs, toads, leopard frogs and tree frogs have all been on very good form - loving both wet and dry, day and night. Chimney swifts have been congregating into very large flocks.

Allergies have ticked up slightly, likely due to mildew.

On September 4, I heard and saw the first flock of Canada geese heading south. And with the slanted angle of the sunlight and some dead leaves on the ground, crunching as I walk by, I can't help but hear this line from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings  

“The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air...”

This wasn't the first week where I felt Autumn. But this week felt like a wave that pulls at you stronger than you think it will. Cooler weather is coming and it turns our thoughts to colored leaves, soup, and tucking in.