Struggling To Find Ourselves

The more things change, the more they stay the same…or so the story goes.

Along with the obvious change of seasons that has been marked by the brilliantly colored leaves on the various types of trees, we have noticed that the neighbors have been changing from their Summer-like thought processes into their Winter-Is-Coming thought processes.  They’ve been getting firewood up to the house, and cleaning out the flowerbeds of the last remnants of dried up leaves from all of the Spring and Summer foilage.  Propane tanks have been filled for the first time.  Front doors have been closed more to keep out some of the coolness that the North wind has brought to the neighborhood.  People are staying home more because of the coolness and wetness from the rain the last several days.  Oh, and let’s not forget that we can actually SEE the neighbor’s house over in the next block, straight across from us, because most of the trees have lost their leaves…*Laughs*  Not much change happens around here, other than the changes that we all go through as the seasons turn from one to the next.

What does change look like in YOUR neighborhood?