Yes the winters can be pretty cold at times. There are places that get a lot more snow than we do, but our snow doesn't melt very quick. We have had at least one day already below zero where the little pan of water for the birds froze over last week.
Fall is one of our shortest season, and it is not hard to miss the color changes, we might have another week, but by Mid October there wont be many leaves left on the trees.
God bless ya. The older I get the less tolerant I seem to be of the cold weather. Maybe someday in the not too distant future we'll be moving further south, or maybe just pack it all in and sell everything and go nomadic. Then I can just go where the weather suits my clothes, haha ;)
I thought the heat in California was going to kill me when we moved there for a little while, we ended up moving back to Alaska, I guess for me even though I do not like the cold, it seems to be more tolerable than the excessive heat.