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Article: Autumnal equinox: a different kind of twilight.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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Byline: Tom Ragan
Colorado Springs, Colo. -- There's something in the air: an unmistakable scent of burning wood at night; in the mornings, a cold wind blows through my open bedroom window, shuddering me awake, serving far better than any alarm clock.
Here in Colorado, the aspens in the nearby mountains are just beginning to turn yellow, giving some slopes a five o'clock shadow; when it rains these days, there's a chance that it might be snowing in the higher elevations above 10,000 feet.
We've reached that time of year again - whether we like it or not.
It's the twilight of the changing seasons, that gray area in between summer and ...