Sointula weather

After a summer of very high temperatures and humidity, the weather in New York is turning toward autumn: 62 degrees this morning! As I sit here typing, it is almost like a Sointula morning. When I would wake up in Sointula during the summer months, I immediately put on a long-sleeved shirt and my warm long pants, along with socks. The temps were generally in the 50s, going up by August to 70 during the day. How I have missed that weather this summer, and I was reminded anew of it the other day when there was an email from Heather saying she had just come in from working in the yard and that the weather was "fabulous." I know exactly what she meant, and hope to enjoy it again next summer.

Still, I made the best of the hot weather and spent time on the Hudson River kayaking. Tomorrow I am going on a paddle to the State of Liberty. We won't actually land on Liberty Island, but will circumnavigate it. In the meantime, a photo of a recent outing. (Click on photo to enlarge.) That is New Jersey in the background, not Manhattan. Another outing in hot weather was a trip to the Jersey shore. The other photo is of my friend Nona on that outing. I was sitting on a beach chair under an umbrella, like those sensible folks on the right-hand side of the photo.