Fall Colors

Last night we finally changed the clocks. It's obviously a negative when it comes to the shortening of the day and the fact that it got dark at about 6:00 this evening, but a huge plus for the morning because it's been pretty cold and dark and REALLY hard to get out of bed when it's still black outside until after 8am. 

I can't complain about the weather, with the exception of this past Friday and Saturday, it's been absolutely beautiful. Crisp and chilly in the morning and in the evening, but still sunny and reaching low 70's during the day. 

I love the combination of the fall colors against the palm trees and the tropical plants like the hibiscus that still have flowers on them. It sometimes takes a careful eye, but if you can manage to look past the layer of smog, Santiago really is a beautiful green city.

Bad Weather Karma

If you look at the Weather Channel feed on my blog today and it says rain and 43 degrees Fahrenheit and you think, hmm, that's strange that it's as cold in Chile as it is in Chicago, um well, IT IS STRANGE!. I'm a little confused as to why the Chicago weather of 84 degrees one day and 40 the next had to follow me here. Ok, so I'm being a little dramatic, but this is the second extreme temperature swing that we've had in the last several weeks. When I wheeled my bike around the back to put under the covered patio on Saturday, it was blazing hot and sunny and Ita looked at me like I was crazy for even mentioning the word rain. In fact, I was joking with some friends last weekend that I was starting to get my Fahrenheit and Celsius confused since my Weather Channel feed for Chicago said 26 and it was 27 degrees Celsius here. I rubbed it in that while they were shopping for winter coats, I was sitting at an outdoor patio enjoying a beer. And that my friends, is bad weather karma.