After reading my last post, my wife insisted she HAD NOT put up the fall decorations around our house. She had put up the post-summer decorations. To emphasize her point, and "to correct any earlier misconceptions", she took out the magic marker and changed the labeling on the storage box for the decorations.
I'm glad she did not let me succumb to disillusionment that our new name for the season would not catch on.
Post-Summer beats Fall any day.
Post-Summer elicits a sense of a warm, cozy transition. Summer is not a distant memory, it's just morphing into something else. Sure there will be chilly mornings and evenings - but the warm sunny afternoons have not gone away.
There are just no good connotations conjured up by Fall. If you fall, you get hurt. If regimes fall, there is chaos.
Post-Summer suggests sunny afternoons in a hammock.
Fall suggests barren trees and cold, windy days.
Post-Summer is the clear winner. Start using it in your conversations today!
