What is your favorite Season or time of year? For me it would be Autumn. I love how the weather cools down without being "hurts to breath too cold". Yeah snow is pretty but I like to be able to feel my nose, and ears. In fall the leaves are so colorful and a drive or hike through the canyons can be breathtakingly beautiful. Just like the day before Christmas holds so much joy and anticipation, Autumn has that electric feeling for me of all the fun Holiday's just ready to leap from around the corner. Before you even know it you will be crazy with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentines day... but for now its just a calm, crisp, beautiful day in Fall. Its getting darker earlier; the only thing worse for a Mom putting your kids to bed when it still looks like noon day sunlight outside is the memory of being a kid wondering why in the world is your Mother making you go to bed when it is obviously noon outside. So, Yes getting darker earlier is a big plus for Autumn. I enjoy a nice scarf or light jacket, when you are going out, before you know it, getting ready to go out will have transformed from "that's a nice jacket" comments to people's eye widening and stepping to the side as you walk towards them puffed up in multiple layers like the state puff marshmallow man. No, I do not rock a giant winter coat. Speaking of things I do not rock, Autumn is the wonderful time of year I can once again tuck away my swimsuit and congratulate myself on surviving yet another swimming season. Don't get me wrong I am not hating on my body, I have never been a swimsuit loving girl. I love going to pumpkin patches to pick my own pumpkins, apple orchards to pick our own apples. All the fruit and veggie stands have amazing selections this time of year, sweet corn, zucchini, home grown or in our case neighbor grown tomatoes (they give them, we don't steal). I have loved all these things for years, but now add that many of my loved ones have gone home during this time of year and so I find my mind wonders often to those I love and miss and find myself smiling as I remember their amazing lives and examples. So as my Father and brothers know the official way to declare its Fall I raise my glass of tart apple cider and with a glazed maple bar (a real one, none of that whipped maple junk, only the glazed kind) I say Happy Fall everyone!
I love all the things you said about autumn. It's my favorite time of year, too. I love spring and summer for the newness and abundance of life they give us, but there's just something about fall that reminds you of the best of people and the best of times.
ReplyDeleteI love fall as well. I was nodding along to all the reasons that you mentioned. I also LOVE school (read:nerd) and that is another great thing about fall.
ReplyDeleteI, likewise, do not 'rock the big coat.' In fact winter is probably my least favorite season. Thanks goodness for the holidays. I feel bad for Jan-March.
I really miss Logan in the fall! Ok, so I just miss Logan, and I just miss fall. We don't really get much changing colors here.
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