Business - Mary Perez

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

The calendar says fall back but we need to look forward

Tomorrow night after trick-or-treat, we’ll fall back and regroup.

Autumn on the Coast is so unlike the fall I knew before Hurricane Katrina brought us here. A rare day in the mid-70s in the North is known as Indian Summer, and is made for raking leaves before the snow flies.

Here a day in the 70s is just crisp enough for long sleeves.

Cruisin’ Beach Boulevard this week are flocks of birds, as amazing as the antique cars that just left, and enjoying the same pastimes as the cruisers.

Savoring the Coast cuisine and taking in the scenery, they group in crazy formations down the beach.

Some dip toward the water, then rise into the sky, flying a wave along the shore. Others swoop and turn, the flock of them changing direction so abruptly I wonder how they don’t crash into each other.

Mark LaSalle and Mozart Dedeaux from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center in Moss Point could tell us what kind each are and where they came from. They can also say where the birds are heading once their South Mississippi vacation is over and they start the long journey over the Gulf of Mexico.

The leaves are just starting to blush and the pecans that drop from our trees are being turned into pecan pies, pecan waffles and pecans for all the Christmas cookies we’ll soon bake.

The seasons, subtle as they are on the Coast, are reminders that time passes quickly and things happen in cycles.

While times are so uncertain now, this recession will end, economists tell us, as all the others have.

This weekend we turn the clocks back on a nearly full-moon Halloween. We pray that when it’s time to spring forward our country and our economy will have weathered another long winter and we’ll emerge in a much more optimistic season.

Just Krewson Around is an opinion column by Mary Krewson Perez. She can be reached at 896-2354 or meperezsunherald.com.