The First Day Of Autumn 2012 In Pittsburgh

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Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, readers and writers from all over the world.  The Old Soldier knows that we all live in different kinds of weather.

Even so, here in Pittsburgh it is officially the first day of autumn; which means the days are cooler and the nights are longer.  The high will only be in the 60s today.  The sun will occasionally peek out from behind the clouds.

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The number of hits that the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is averaging every day for this month is holding steady at 662. 

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Be sure to check back some time tomorrow for a new “The Sunday Flash Fiction Story.”

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It’s early afternoon and this is the Old Soldier reporting from the City of Pittsburgh.

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Duquesne Incline from the top

Duquesne Incline from the top (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

PS Even though the leaves on the trees outside my windows are still green, I couldn’t help but to pen the following haiku to the changing of the season.

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Looking Out My Window

Red and green and brown
The days of autumn are here
Yellows are so bright

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A Flash Fiction Writer Enjoys The Great Outdoors

World War I memorial, Schenley Park, Pittsburg...

World War I memorial, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Sculpture is entitled Hygeia by sculptor Giuseppe Moretti. Created in 1922, and dedicated to medical personnel in the war. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Old Soldier just came back from a walk through Schenley Park.  It’s noon.  The park is next to the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.  For me, a city boy, the park is the great outdoors.

My book from the public library was due today.  So, I returned the book and then started through the park where I found a bench in the shade of the leaves of a tree.  I watched the motor, bicycle and foot traffic and jotted in my small pocket notebook.

Phipps Conservatory right across the street gleamed in the sunshine.

It was very relaxing being surrounded by all the trees, and grass and shrubs as work crews tended to the park and the cars, bicycles and people (some of them jogging) went by.

I could even small lilac.

Keep reading and keep writing that flash fiction.

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Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pitts...

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Canterbury Flats, St Kilda

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The Old Soldier is having a wonderful Sunday afternoon on this mild, lovely fall day.  I just came in from a walk around the neighborhood.  Even though I live in an apartment building near a semi-commercial section of the city, just a street or two behind my apartment building are stately old homes with lots of lawns, trees and shrubbery.  The leaves are brown, green, yellow and red.  They cover the sidewalks and blow across the street and fall from the trees onto the lawns.

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