Summer went by fast this year?
Not sure if it just feels that way or if has to do with the short period of good weather.

Over here we had 3 - 3,5 weeks of great summer weather in June, then it was basically crap with a few good days in a row in August and September.
But in July I could already sense a shift in the air, in energy, and I could feel that summer was over. If we were to get nice days it'd be an extra, like late summer/early autumn, but the real summer feel had gone. But it was just July? Should be the height of summer.
As if it had burnt that up during those 3 good weeks in June?
Someone else said they could sense the same in the air.
Really weird.
Is my memory false when I recall summer lasting for months on end? Starting around my birthday mid-May, June, July, August, often a glorious September?
Now people say it's been a great summer when all we had were a few weeks of great weather?

Then sunset shifting... that seems to have gone amazingly fast too this year? I've never experienced it this way.
Like one day sunset was at 10, the next at 9, day after at 8, and the day after that at 7 (now).

What the heck happened this year to make it go this fast?
Two weeks from now the clock's going back, accelerating the whole thing even more.

As I have gotten, <coughcough> older, everything seems to have sped up.

Recall as a kid, swim team practices and meets felt like forever. Summer enrichment classes such as shop/leather working/wood working was fun. Golf lessons. Horseback riding, arts and crafts, archery at camp.

Could never get enough time at the ocean. Churning ice cream at my grandparent's house and lake living at the other grandparent's house.

I feel as we get older, we have more awareness of time being precious. Once it is gone. It can never be regained.

Aye, summer went by really fast, though I was busy enough. Looking after my Dad's legacy and working full time since June. But I won't complain, since I am a winter person anyway

It was a great summer here. Not too hot. No big wildfires this year. I have nothing to complain about.

It still feels like summer here, temperature wise.

I don't get the environmentally cues like the cooler nights, leaves turning colors, or even cooler days, that come with seasonal changes in the non-tropical climate places. Here it's more like two seasons, winter and summer. Winter is more like spring in other places, but only lasts about two months, if we're lucky.

So yeah, when I look at the calendar or write the date down, it's hard to believe it's already the middle of October, when it still feels like July, haha.

If you feel winter fatigue, expose yourself to daylight. Even on cloudy days, the light outside is more intense than that indoors. If you can't go outside, at least sit by a large window.

Still Summertime in Florida.

"LOVE" is Likened to the Summer Morning Wild Flowers
They Bloom in All their Glory,
until the Sun comes Out and they Wither and become just a Memory.