The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Today is the first day of fall--autumn if you're proper--and it feels like it. Great weather. No more unbearable Southern summer heat. Cool nights so you can sleep with your bedroom windows open. Beautiful to see leaves changing colors (though dreadful to have to rake them). Fairs and festivals going on every week. Carowinds turns into SCarowinds. Renaissance Festival runs for seven weekends. High school, college, and professional football in full swing (Go Independence! Go South Carolina! Go Panthers!). Baseball playoffs. New episodes of television shows return.

How could you not fall for it?