Autumnal Equinox

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As the summer comes to an end the days get shorter and shorter. And today the length of the day exactly equals the length of the night. Well sort of. LINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumnal_equinox
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The sun is directly over the equator on this date. In the northern hemisphere this is the beginning of the fall season astronomically. But for a meteorologist autumn is considered to be the entire months of September, October, and November.
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A beautiful time of the year. But clearly different than spring. This is the time of ending and closing down. The Spring season is the time of rebirth and new growth.
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The picture is done in watercolor and pen and is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam about 200 km or 124 miles North of here. Supposedly this is "A typically Dutch landscape: stormy weather, driving rain, lashing waves, a lock, and water flooding over the dike into the polder below. In apparent desperation, the man on the lock has joined his hands in prayer, and elsewhere cattle are being driven up onto the dike."
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Well, the Dutch do indeed like to complain about the weather and the rain. And to a boy from the desert who has lived here for more than a decade I have to say, Everything sure is green here. But other than that I do agree with them; much of the time the weather here really sucks.
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