Autumns

Some autumn are slow to start; this one has been more like shale shifting between increasingly common sandstone as one climbs the outcrop, early hints of autumn followed by returning episodes of summer. A summer that lingers may not be an Indian Summer; an Indian Summer is supposed to follow the first frost, and may have involved haze due to the prairies being fired to the East. Or perhaps the term evolves to now include any sort of late summer heat. Discussion of the evolution of language has been banned in the past, some would argue as "a dogmatic stand against the materialists" [Daniel Dennett. "From Bacteria to Bach and Back". 2017] or perhaps because the topic was (or was felt to be) too speculative.