I’m coming out of the cupboard
because autumn is here, my favourite time of the year, definitely my favourite season.
I can’t say I am missing those
baking hot days of summer, being of vampire skin, i.e. burns easily, I for one
am pleased we’ve lost more than a few degrees as autumn, or Fall, depending on
your preference, seeps into our days and our bones. Yes, it’s chilly, yes it’s
a bit damp, yes it’s a bit more breezy and yes, possibly a bit more rain but
not actually worse than summer rain as when we had it just made for flooding.
So I welcome autumn with open arms as I always do.
And SL is all over autumn too, well,
mostly. Or perhaps just where I visit as if you’re in the southern hemisphere
then I know it’s not autumn for you but the beginnings of spring. Isn’t that
just weird, you think, being on the same planet and yet here we are having not
just different seasons but polar opposite ones. But I guess that’s what the
poles are there for, to be poles apart. So now, as in RL I seek out Autumn in
SL where also the colours are just so vivid and alive, even though technically
they symbolize a slowing down, even death, as leaves change colour and drop to
the ground to dry shrivel and decay, or get squirrelled, or wormed, away by
worms underground, as that’s what worms do. Although I have to see if that’s
also true in SL: do worms sneak leaves underground?
In fact, is there even an
underground in any real sense in SL? We talk all the time about the ‘sea’ or
the gap between sims where nothing exists, the Void Ocean, as it’s called, but
rarely do we think about what’s under our feet. A bit like RL really, few ever
wonder about what they’re walking on and what goes on down there which is just
as much or even probably far more than what goes on above ground. An entire
world out of sight and out of mind.
Anyway, here are some photos of my SL
autumn travels. I hope to post more over the season, at least before winter
gets a fingerhold.
~x Anan
