For example, today is the first day of winter, but as far as I’m concerned it’s been winter for two months.
To me, fall means it’s cooling off and the leaves are changing color. Once all the leaves have fallen, and the trees are bare and I have to run my heater, as far as I’m concerned it’s winter, damnit!

If you had a story to tell about something that happened prior to December 21st, say, on December 5th, and wanted to place the person listening into the scene, would you say it happened in the fall or in the winter?

Topics: summer, winter, spring, Fall, equinox