The Last Warm Autumn Sunset

Trees glow in golden light from a low angle sun Saturday
afternoon in St. Albans, Vermont. The dark clouds above
signal the end of a remarkable warm spell, and the start
of winter, or at least Winter Lite 

 Late Saturday, afternoon,  I said goodbye to a beautiful Vermont autumn and said hello to winter. 

Yes, it's still autumn, but winter, at least Winter Lite, almost always hits the Green Mountain State in sometime in November. 

It's hitting right on schedule, really. 

The opening week and a half of this November felt like never-ending summer, what with bouts of record high temperatures and periods of strangely high humidity. 

As forecast, that all started crashing down with the setting sun Saturday. The rest of the weekend, and probably the rest of November, would be quite different.

 Unlike the first 12 days of the month, Sunday was completely in character with November: Dark, overcast, drizzly, cold, with snow flurries eventually mixing into the picture. It was a little brighter on Monday, but the air had a definite cold season chill to it. 

Amid still warm temperatures late Saturday afternoon, I knew this change was coming. As if to announce it Ma Nature gave us what I would call the last warm sunset of the autumn.

It wasn't the sky that was so interesting, but the landscape was. A shaft of golden sun broke through the clouds before sinking behind the Adirondacks.  It lit up the bare trees, still wet from the out of season, early morning tropical downpours. 

The sun on the trees gave a warm, golden glow, as if to say, this is your last chance to enjoy a balmy atmosphere for awhile. Above this golden glow, dark, cold clouds competed with warmer looking sunlit ones. The battle to turn cold had started, and the cold was the inevitable winner.

For a hint of what I saw, click on this link to see it on video. Or, if you see the link to the YouTube video below, click on that. (Not all devices let you see that image)