So Fall just showed up here in the Mid-Atlantic

[charlie and algernon]

He's early dammit! I wasn't expecting him for at least another week or two. x(

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Actually has been down here for past 2 weeks.

Our signals are butterflies,( mostly swallowtails) hummingbirds, spider lilies, and night time temps below 70.
It can still get up to 95 but not for very long, and the cool off in evening is really appreciated.
The sulfur butterflies appear in late Sept. ( orange ones, yellow ones), then we REALLY know it is fall.

[Bertha Venation]

2. Sulfur butterflies?

Never heard of them. Post a pic?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Here: 2 pics, and a link.

if you google "sulphur butterflies" and click on "images" section of google, you can find tons of pictures.
Here is a good single page of the different kinds of butterflies, we have most of them here:
sulphurs are about 2/3 down the page
http://www.simplybutterflies.com/Backyard_Butterflies.html


single:



bunch of them, a normal sight here, they like to congregate on a patch of moist dirt:

[Bertha Venation]

4. Cool! Thanks.

I actually did google images, but after I replied to you. Duh...

:)

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. the "cabbage white" that lays caterpillars in your broccoli is also a sulphur.

I have become fond of the "yellow" sulphurs because of the way they congregate on the ground and look like a patch of yellow and orange-ish wildflowers, they are a definite harbinger of fall down here.

[MorningGlow]

6. Here too, but right on time

Actually turned on the furnace this morning. Pisspot kitteh who's always cold (8 lb. bag o' bones--no blubber for insulation) nearly wept with gratitude.

[applegrove]

7. I wore boots and a jacket today. I needed them.

[madinmaryland]

8. Uhmm. The Redskins won last weekend.

:hide:

[av8rdave]

9. I've seen a few of the leaves just starting to turn in southern Michigan