{"id":1485,"date":"2017-11-03T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2017-11-02T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:28:39","slug":"fall-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2017\/11\/03\/fall-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been several years since we\u2019ve spent fall up north rather than down in Arizona. \u00a0Because I\u2019ve been out walking each day, I\u2019ve been part of it. \u00a0I\u2019ve watched the green vine leaves turn first transparent yellow and finally brittle brown. \u00a0I was surprised when, overnight, the leaves on the vine maple down by the fishpond transformed from green to bright scarlet. \u00a0The petunias withered away and the fuchsia gave up the ghost. \u00a0The last two blooms on the dahlia plant by the pool house decided not to bloom and turned black instead. \u00a0The only trees that still haven\u2019t completely turned are the Japanese maples on the patio. \u00a0They\u2019re just starting.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was Halloween\u2014the first one without rain around here since 2006. \u00a0We had one pair of trick-or-treaters\u2014our grandson, Colt, and his trick-or-treating buddy, Alan Hoviland. \u00a0One year they were a very credible Harry Potter and Hagrid. \u00a0In the past they\u2019ve been Penguin and Batman and Vikings. \u00a0Last year they showed up as zoot-suited gangsters. This year Colt was a red-haired mustachioed Mariachi, complete with a sombrero and maracas. \u00a0Alan turned up as Poncho Villa.<\/p>\n

\"\"Was that cultural appropriation? \u00a0I think, in this case, it\u2019s more like cultural assimilation. \u00a0Their last trick-or-treating stop for the evening was our family\u2019s favorite Mexican food restaurant, Tres Hermanos in Kirkland. \u00a0It a family kind of place. \u00a0It\u2019s the restaurant where Colt has celebrated every single one of his birthdays! \u00a0At Tres, the brothers in question, don\u2019t call our grandson Colt. \u00a0For some strange reason at Tres Hermanos, Colt is Cauliflower Ears. \u00a0At the restaurant, I\u2019m not J.A. Jance, best selling author. \u00a0I\u2019m Colt\u2019s Grandma. \u00a0Tres (or as Siri likes to say, \u201cTrays\u201d) has sponsored dine-out evenings every year to support PTA efforts at all three of Colt\u2019s elementary schools.<\/p>\n

And what did they think of our two Anglo caballeros<\/em>? \u00a0They loved them, and so do I.<\/p>\n

As for today? \u00a0It\u2019s November. \u00a0When I took the dogs outside this morning, it was raining. \u00a0I\u2019m not wearing sunscreen today and probably won\u2019t need it again until we\u2019re back down in Tucson.<\/p>\n

Remember that old song, Singing in the Rain? \u00a0Today I\u2019ll be humming that, while walking in the rain and not thinking about Christmas.<\/p>\n

Which happens to be coming at us like a freight train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been several years since we\u2019ve spent fall up north rather than down in Arizona. \u00a0Because I\u2019ve been out walking each day, I\u2019ve been part of it. \u00a0I\u2019ve watched the green vine leaves turn first transparent yellow and finally brittle brown. \u00a0I was surprised when, overnight, the leaves on the vine maple down by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holidays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsBA-nX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}