/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Thinking about what international collaboration could bring to a project about the Aki sisters has led me to mull over what represents autumn to me personally, and about differences in what is quintessentially 'autumn'. As an inhabitant of the Western end of the 49th parallel of North America, 'autumn' makes me think of raking leaves and jumping in the piles. Of Jack-o-Lanterns, firecrackers and sunny days where the dew makes my bare feet numb and the air nips at my lungs. Never having lived anywhere but here and Japan, I don't know what 'autumn' looks like to other people.

I don't think it would make a very good doujinshi (barring very specific execution, which I am not capable of), so I'm not suggesting this as an idea for one... but I can't stop wondering. I know it's a bit kindergarten, but I want to hear about autumn in other places. If I pretended this was a doujinshi idea, would people tell me about what autumn is to them?

tl;dr: What does autumn look like where you live?