What's The Deal With October 17th, anyway?

 Well, it’s quite simply THEE most exquisite day of the year and I’ll tell you why.

Where I live in Michigan, we experience all the seasons. Winter is cold, summer is hot, and spring and fall are that weird transitional season where you need to keep both your summer and winter clothes ready to go at all times because you never know from day to day what the weather will do. October falls into that category- you get hot, you get snow, and everything in between.

But there’s something special, nay, magical about the beginning of the third week. The summer heat has lost its edge but it’s still holding on enough to be comfortable. The leaves are more colorful this week than any other time of the year- they are simply stunning in their vivid orange, yellow and red glory. And on this special week the sky always does one particular thing without fail, which is to hover dark gray and threatening on one side while contrasting itself with bright sunshine on the other, an enchanting backdrop to the beauty of the changing leaves.

It leaves me speechless.

Throughout my blogging years, I began to notice a trend of posting about the beauty of fall on (or very close to) October 17th. So I decided, with years of proof on my virtual pages, that October 17th is a special day when you can count on Michigan fall being at its best.