BACK IN THE DAY my friend Tony Wood, the Inquirer's weather columnist (yes, it's a good gig if you can get it) wrote a piece predicting that this autumn would be particularly spectacular vis-a-vis the changing colors of the trees-a-trees. "Back in the day" wasn't that long ago, but I gotta tellya, I think Woods left us hanging. (And if you write to him, call him Woods. He loves that.)
But I'll never doubt my diminutive pal again. The long wait until November has made this the equivalent of a tantric sex autumn. Are the colors this brilliant every year, or are we seeing something extraordinary? The overly dry September followed immediately by the warmest October on record has resulted in this golden view of Center City from my favorite vantage point on Belmont Plateau.
So let me leave you now on this beautiful crisp November morning with something else Tony revealed to me back in the day when we were students at Temple University. This is the seminal philosophy of the Cosmic It Society (and not the Cosmic Id Society, as Richie Battaglia has so often pointed out). The guidelines go like this, and I hope I can do them justice.
World: Knock. knock.
Nutshell: Who's there?
World: It's me and everything and we want in.
Sure, it was the 70's when he said that. But if it was, how could I remember?
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