Autumn begins at the autumn equinox which this year was at 11:09 PM EDT on September 22.  The winter solstice marks the beginning of winter and that will be at 6:38 PM EST on December 21.  If you find the half way point between the beginning and end of autumn it falls on today’s date, November 7.  So it is mid autumn today.  But if someone asked you, would you say today is mid autumn?  Without thinking about it I would say we are in late autumn.

Most of the leaves have turned color.

A lot of leaves are off the trees.

Although there are some left yet.

Daylight savings time is past and it gets dark earlier.  It’s getting colder.

In my subjective, personal accounting of the seasons all of that says that it is late autumn, not mid autumn.

And that adds up to my still need to clean the gutters.  It’s supposed to be warm this week, maybe I’ll do it in the next few days.  Unless I can find something more important to do, such going out to record the changing season with a camera and Photoshop.