Change is in the air

I'm sitting here looking out our broad front window, and there's not a sky in the clouds. It hit me last week, that I, for the first time in eons, live in a place that follows the seasons. By that I mean that when the calendar says summer, it's warm. Hot even. You know, summerlike. And when it's Fall, it's brisk, cool, shifting. Whereas in SF and Oakland, my two most recent homes, summer often means foggy mornings, and perhaps whole days, then September through October or so it's often warm, even balmy.

Here, like clockwork, it went from being in the 90s, no clouds, to shifting down 20+ degrees, clouds aplenty, a stiff wind musclling its way down the street. And I like it. I did however learn that here too we have an "Indian Summer," a bonus chunk of warm times, in October. Where does that term come from? Hmm...And then, for the first time ever in my life, I'm going to be in a place where there's actual snow. Snow! I know, East Coasters (or elsewhere that there's snow-ers), go ahead and roll your eyes, but I'm looking forward to it.

Against the trend of the seasons, I declared that this would be week of seeds that I've planted around in various places beginning to sprout, and now they have. I've been asked by Janaia, the woman behind Peak Moment TV to go in her place to the APPLE (Alliance for a Post Petroleum Economy) town hall meeting, this time focused on food and farming. And now I, manning a prominently placed table and offering videos on the subject, have a great excuse to talk to lots of people and get my face seen, being the stunt double for the woman who founded this organization. And she's said that she wants to know more about what I'm up to, have to offer, so that she can direct work my way, and perhaps collaborate together. Neato, eh?

As if that weren't enough, I also heard from a woman who got fwd'd the introduction about myself I wrote a month back on the local progressive people listserv, who has a nifty sounding service called Project Simplify. More on that later, when I have more to say. But I can say that things are definitely looking promising, ripe.

See what happens when you make your intentions clear?

Ok, back to working on my first client project. Go GreenSmith go!