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I'm in a small town in Arkansas the trees have just started to change color here but it's still 90 during the day hopefully we are getting closer to the cooler temperatures! Everyone just harvested their hay and were all getting ready for deer season. Archery has opened but it's just to darn hot lol

I'm in rural northern Minnesota and summer is long gone for us. It looks like I'll be digging the last of the potatoes from the garden in 60 degree drizzles. The maples across the field are all in full bright orange and red foliage and the goats are eating up all the leaves that fall on my yard and driveway. The taste in the air this time of the year makes me really look forward to bringing the pumpkins and squash in from the patch and start decorating for the holidays!

I'm in London, Ontario!

@RutledgeRanch- yay for deer season! My family loves venison!
@Wingedeagle - that's crazy that it is still hot like that up by you. We expect it here in the South, but I would have thought that you guys would have some cool weather by now.
@CLynnRose- I cannot wait for that fall taste in the air to begin here! It is my favorite time of year!
@Ammit- I have family that lives near Kokomo - I guess that is not super close to you, but still Indiana! Haha!
@Sugarbread - I've been there before! My grandmother is from Ontario and we used to go visit my great Aunts and Uncles when I was young. I think Ontario is beautiful! As a kid, I was already excited to go shopping for the special "Canadian candy" that they didn't sell here (aero bars, coffee crisp, crunchie bars, and smarties!).

I'm also in Minnesota! I'm in the southeast corner though (Rochester, for @CLynnRose and anyone else who knows MN geography). It occasionally still hits 85 here, but we're mostly in the sixties and seventies. And thunderstorms, like two or three times a week! My rain buckets are completely full! The trees are still mostly green, but they're starting to turn yellow. It's about time to harvest, and the corn is super tall. It started feeling like fall here at the end of August, and it will be winter by mid-November. And by 'winter', for you southerners, I mean that the snow falls and doesn't melt again because it doesn't get above 30 degrees F until April. Normally, anyway. The climate's been real weird the last several years, and it wasn't consistent or reliable in the first place, so who knows!
But we're definitely at the point where you need a sweatshirt in the morning, and before long even the lifelong Minnesotans will break out a light jacket! This is my favorite time of year too, I just wish it lasted a little longer! We just get a brief lovely fall, and then the Winter

I live in the South of England. It has been quite mild and dry lately but today has seen heavy rain and it's getting a bit windy now. Some of the trees are just starting to change colour and there are a lot of berries this year. According to folklore, this means that we are in for a harsh winter - but there is no science to back that up. I like autumn when you get the crisp dry mornings, cold but no wind, and dried leaves rustling underfoot.

I'm in NE Wisconsin, Packer country (I'm like 20 minutes from Lambeau) and outside looks like fall, leaves are changing, mosquitos are carrying away small children, and it's raining more than I've ever seen it. Due for storms tonight. The geese are flocking and heading south already, but today it's a nice 75, looks like the rest of the week is going to cool off into the 60's. Perfect weather to head out on my lease horse tonight if the rain holds off!

Small town Indiana. The mornings are foggy now, and the weather is getting cooler. Hoodie in the morning, short sleeve shirt in the afternoon. We’re in the pleasant, sunny part of autumn.

I'm in Western Maryland!

Mother nature has been going through some life changes or something because it's 90s one day, then the next rain for days at a time and then a nice high 70s the next.. currently it's 75°F and feels amazing with the slight breeze we have

I'm from Eastern Iowa! Nothing much out here, just corn, Quarter horses, and the big blue sky! ♡

It's still quite hot, just a little bit of chill in the morning and in the afternoon lol

@Wolvevenfrost, cover the postage and I'll ship you my snow. ;)

Half of the year I play from a tiny village 15 min outside of Lisbon, Portugal, and the other half from Tønsberg, Norway. But I work as an equestrian photographer, and I tend to take the game with me wherever I go, so my pixel ponies have been created and born everywhere, from the Maneige of the Portuguese School of Equestrian Arts, the stables of Alter Real, the pastures of Veiga, during the Golegã horse fair, in between equipages at competitions etc

I love this game and how easy it is to play it from everywhere.
Before, when I lived in Russia and studied language, I did the same thing there. Bred ponies in the Winter Palace, placed the bid on my favourite mare from auction from my favourite bookstore in St Petersburg (I still remember the feeling when I got her!) etc. That way I connected my favourite horses with great memories, and they usually got their names from the place they were born. Gogol was born on Nevsky Prospekt, Dostoevsky on the old hay market (Sennaya ploshad), Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky in the Mariinsky theatre etc.

That is why I love my old performance line so much. When I see their pedigrees and their ancestors, I remember how much fun we had at that place, the horrible teacher at uni, the fantastic consert, the cold days when I walked on my favourite route and named horses after every street etc.

My best friend was the player who introduced me to the game, and we used to come together and have breeding season parties at the beginning of every season. We ate chocolates and candies, had something good to drink and a good meal, and bred horses. That was when a year lasted 2 months, and the breeding season 2 weeks, so it was quite an event every time a new year started!

St. Louis, Missouri, here. Highs in the 90s one day, 60s the next, this morning was the first time I needed a sweater to go to work! I LOVE autumn!

I currently live (and teach) on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Central South Dakota, I was born and raised in northwest Iowa though about an hour from Sioux Falls SD and about 10 minutes from the Minnesota border.

Small town northern Idaho here. It's been a few weeks of lovely Autumn so far but they're calling for feet of snow in our neighbor to the east (Montana) this weekend so... hopefully autumn isnt too short lived :(

I'm located in the thumb of Michigan not far from beautiful lake Huron. The leaves are starting to change their colors and the weather has been surprisingly warm still. Excited there are only a couple days left till opening for whitetail bow season. Not looking forward to winter at all though.

I apparently live just a touch southeast of @Sugarbread in Aylmer Ontario.

Currently it’s starting to get too cold to run out of the house in the morning in my shorts and tank top to run to the barn to give my horse his ulcer meds at 5:30am. Had to throw a sweater on this morning it was 8C. But by the time I leave work I’ll have to ditch my sweater and drive with the windows open to cool my truck off on my drive home (I live too close to work for the air to kick in cold by the time I get home)

There are a number of Aussies here, but nobody else has checked in on this post.

I hail from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and it is spring over here. Australia is currently in the grip of a crippling drought, our farmers are doing it real tough. Some country towns are rapidly approaching Day Zero (no water). We also have some pretty nasty bush fires in Northern NSW, towards Queenslands. We desperately need rain.

Oh, it's true.....Almost everything in Australia is out to kill you.

I am in Southern Illinois where we are still having summer. Our temperatures have stayed above average this year and it is still in the high 80's to mid 90's. I can't remember the last year we were still running the air conditioning this late in the year

I hail from Calgary, Alberta Canada, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and have the utmost privilege to ride some of the most scenic prairie landscape. I have 1 horse (boarded about 25 minutes out of the city), a cat, and a dog. I have two grown children.
We have had 2 snowfalls, but typically in Calgary it tends not to stay too long as the Chinooks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind) tend to take the snow with it.
My horse is a Standardbred mare who trained for harness racing, but bowed a tendon before she made her mark on the racetrack. She was born in 1999 (yes, she is 20), and I have had her for 14 years. She has done it all with a (mostly) willing attitude - trails, gymkhanas, jumping, a pace under saddle race, cattle penning, and more. She and my furbabies are the loves of my life!♥
And then there's my man...
I love him - been with him almost 11 years, but he cannot seem to give his 29 year old son the boot (yes, this waste of skin lives with us), and this game is my stress relief from that nonsense!

@Jessj, I'm in Oregon too. Not in your neck of the woods, but its always a pleasant surprise to see a fellow Oregonian.

I live in a small (feels large to me after living in a town of under 3000 people most my life) in Oregon. Just outside of Salem pretty much. Its been cold in the mornings most days for a few weeks now, but often times has been warming up and giving us some sunshine later on in the day. This is my favorite time of year to go running, I prefer to go in the mornings and really like the cold but not too cold air, less sweat. The biggest issue I am starting to notice is how dark it is when we get up to run at 5 each morning. I've added an LED collar to my dogs outfit, and always throw as much reflective things as I can find on myself before heading out. We were almost hit on multiple occasions before the reflective/LED stuff got here. A Doberman is not very easy to spot in the dark until you're extremely close.

It is so cool to see multiple people who are also in Minnesota! I'm in the Anoka area in MN. I've been here my entire life. Someday I would love to be able to travel to different states / countries as the furthest I have ever been was Chicago. Its obviously autumn here, with lots of beautiful color on the trees. Minnesota weather can never make up its mind, one day its 70 degrees and sunny and the next day it is in the 40's with a windchill and rain lol. My horse already looks like a wooly mammoth too!

Autumn always seems to go by so fast here... before you know it we will have snow. (Which I personally dread because Minnesota winters are so brutal.)

My husband is military so we move often, but now we’re in southeastern AL by the Florida panhandle. I was born in Florida and lived there some years, but have spent most of my life in New Jersey (where I’ve actually had family since the 1600s)!

I was born and live in upstate NY (Cohoes for anyone from around here) but WV has my heart!

Living in a small town on the border of California along the Colorado River, called Needles.