Last Taste of Summer: Pleasant Weather Brings Valley Residents Out to Play As Season Wanes.
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By Jim Guy, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 5--Valley residents took to area parks, lakes and rivers Monday, trying to capture the last summer holiday on the Labor Day weekend.
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LAWRENCE, Kan., June 21  /PRNewswire/ -- It's summer again.  People will be spending more time outdoors strolling through city parks, gardening in their yards or vacationing at any one of our country's beautiful national preserves.
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By Tim Bragg, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 26--Memorial Day weekend hasn't been a fun one for the last couple of years at Lindy's Landing.
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, Sept. 12:  Labor Day is gone. The coast is quiet now. Most beachgoers have packed away chairs and umbrellas and turned their thoughts to school and football.
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By Nick Bonham, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 5--Monday clearly was a day to be outdoors.   Picnics and barbecues. Games of golf or frisbee golf. One last visit to the Colorado State Fair. A drive around town with top down on your convertible.
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It's June, but I'm thinking of fall. And with good reason.  Last year's pheasant harvest was likely higher than in any year since the mid-1940s. The past winter was relatively mild, which should have meant fairly good carryover of birds.
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By Cynthia V. Campbell  Fall trips give us a chance to see the countryside painted in rare beauty. And we owe it all to the leaf. From the mountains of Vermont to the gardens of the deep South, it's a wonderful time to be outdoors walking along wooded paths and relaxing in cool crisp air.
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Kristin Ott laced up her in-line skates at the parking lot by Green Lake&#39;s community center, ready to enjoy one of Seattle&#39;s last sunny days for a while -- and perhaps one of the last days of being able to park free at the park.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Officials in a  rural valley in British Columbia hope that keeping out  cellphones will help attract residents and tourists who want to  escape to the quiet of nature.
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WEST NEWBURY - Fall foliage is at its peak in the Merrimack River Valley. The hills overlooking Route 113 are bursting with brilliant yellows, reds, and oranges. But those leaves didn't turn overnight. They've taken weeks to get where they are - much like the North Andover Scarlet Knights.
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A storm gave Colorado a taste of winter on the last day of summer Tuesday, dumping nearly 17 inches of snow in some parts of the high country.
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It is a back-to-school ritual being repeated around the region in the waning days of summer.
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By By Melanie Sill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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At a time when restaurants typically put away their patio furniture, sweaters replace T-shirts and sailboats are plucked from the water, Midwesterners are out enjoying activities usually reserved for July and August &#151; not weeks past Labor Day. Summer is here. Finally.
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He is finding solace in the sunshine, the temperature in southern California this weekend climbing to 80 degrees Fahrenheit and making a glorious summer of what had been an autumn of discontent.
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By Anonymous  Farmers could be seen Thursday out in fields, preparing them for crop seeding, in a few spots in the Red River Valley in what is turning into a late spring, crop-wise. But most fields in the region remain too cool for fieldwork, with frost still in much of the soil.