Eight Weeks until Frost

Like the weather lore I learned as a child in middle Tennessee, I learned a new bit of weather wisdom when I moved to Vidalia nearly 18 years ago.

When the Goldenrod blooms, the first frost of winter will follow in eight weeks.

/ Marks November 1 on calendar

On our ride to the Beaver Pond this evening, we spotted them. The dull yellow flowerets were bowing in the gentle coolness of the September twilight.
The heat of this summer has been overwhelming at time, so we are looking forward to cooler tempatures of fall (and winter).