"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."  Thomas Hood "The quiet August noon has come; a slumberous silence fills the sky; the fields are still, the woods are dumb, in glassy sleep waters lie." W.C. Bryant, The Old Farmer's Almanac In many places, it’s easy to not only notice but to actually feel, even if ever so slightly, the signs of impending Autumn as early as the second week of August…  One morning you notice that the air feels almost imperceptibly crisp and dry, lending a new-found freshness to the seemingly endless hazy and humid dog days of midsummer.  Then, one day,…