I am a memesheep...

Ok, like this is going to surprise anybody...

Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test...

NFPS - The Guru

Nature, Foreground, Big Picture, and Shape

You perceive the world with particular attention to nature. You focus on what's in front of you (the foreground) and how that fits into the larger picture. You are also particularly drawn towards the shapes around you. Because of the value you place on nature, you tend to find comfort in more subdued settings and find energy in solitude. You like to deal directly with whatever comes your way without dealing with speculating possibilities or outcomes you can't control. You are in tune with all that is around you and understand your life as part of a larger whole. You prefer a structured environment within which to live and you like things to be predictable.

Early Fall

August Autumn Diptych
Originally uploaded by gshower7

So... I would have liked to have waited about another month, really, before showing photos like these... but here we have it. Glorious Fall weather, and changing trees, in August. Isn't August supposed to be one of the awful, hot months? Dog Days of Summer, and all that?* Be that as it may, this is the view that greets me when I walk out the front door of the retail shop at work...

Not that I'm complaining. At all. I love Fall. Love it love it love it. Love the smell of the air, the cool crispness of the breeze, the colors of the leaves and flowers, the intense blue the sky seems to take on, just in time to show off the brilliant foliage. I look forward to wearing jackets again.** We can sleep with the windows open, and not wake up covered in pollen or feel like we haven't slept at all thanks to the humidity.

Driving to Pennsic, through lovely Berkshires and Appalacians, I thought I'd noticed a few trees changing... just stressed, I figured, a branch will often turn halfway through summer if it's been damaged... Driving home from Pennsic (when it wasn't pouring so hard we couldn't see out the windows), through lovely Applalacians and Berkshires, I definitely noticed trees changing. Way early. It's pretty. It is. I am hoping that we'll have an extended fall, and the leaves will stay on the trees for longer than they usually do, thanks to all the nice rain and moisture we've been having. Which is, I suppose, a major contributor to said changing of trees. They're practically drowning...

*OK, so it's not named that because all the dogs wander around with their tongues out, I know that... Sirius-ly, though... ;)
**Though if one more person mentioned "heh, if it's this cool now, just wait till winter! It's gonna be a looong one!" I was going to hit something... quite possibly the speaker of said statement. Not gonna think about it till I have to.