We had a great weekend with College Guy and his friend Illinois Guy. As you might imagine, he was “oh so happy” to pose for this picture “for the blog”. But I said, “I have to take a photo – otherwise they won’t believe you actually came home!” Ok, that’s not true. I just like getting at least one photo of him when he’s home. (Well it IS true that I told him I needed photo-evidence for the blog. But mostly, I just wanted a picture for me.) He grew up with a scrapbooking mom – he’s pretty tired of photos, I think. (But boy does he have great albums of his life. Someday he’ll appreciate that, right? Or maybe someday his future wife will appreciate it.)
I did a little shopping today. Never mind that I have waaaay too many emails in my in-box to answer. I paid bills AND scheduled a dentist appointment today, and if you know anything about me, you know that those are two of my least favorite things to do. Susan (The Awesome Assistant) told me I deserved to go shopping. And who am I to argue? So slowly, I’m starting to turn the house over to fall. 
Fall is my absolute favorite season of all and I love doing up the house with all things autumn. It would be smart for me to decorate with what I have first, and then see if there are any holes that need filling. But what fun is that? So today I bought this great gourd, and candle. Tonight I’ll get the rest of the stuff out that I already have (after dealing with all of my emails – I promise). Maybe later in the week I’ll go shopping again to fill in the holes. Don’t tell WH. (Who, by the way, really really appreciated all of your birthday wishes last week! And who, by the way, really really hated that I put a picture of him on the blog in an apron. I got in trouble over that one.) š
Just so you don’t think it was all about fall today, I also got this beautiful pottery mug in the mail today from my new favorite pottery place. The pie plate was a gift from a friend, and I immediately hopped right over to the website to see if he had any mugs. (Actually, my friend was going to buy me mugs, but knew of my “mug problem“. Obviously that didn’t stop me. Obviously that is why I have a mug problem.) John does amazing work and is featured in several museums. I’m happy to have these two pieces from him.
I also found this fun bag today. (Did I mention that I have a bag problem, too? I’m addicted to great bags. sigh. Surely there are some of you out there who share this affliction??) I love the way this gal tied on a bunch of fun ribbons. I tried to get her to make them for us at Loopy, but she is having a hard time keeping enough in stock at the shop where she works. She kept my card, so maybe in the future.
I’m thinking we won’t have an official Sneak Up this week. Only because Susan felt the need to take off to San Diego for the rest of the week. (She needs a vacation from the yarn. Go figure.) And while the other Loopy Elves and I could probably handle a Sneak Up without her, it just wouldn’t be as much fun! So we’ll take a little breather and be back next week with more fun stuff. (“What stuff?”, you ask? Well, we have Yarn Pirate, Yarntini, more Fiesta, more from Schafer, and the new Classic Elite Alpaca Sox yarn, for a start. Plus more of Wendy’s Patterns. And oh BOY, wait until you see our two newest indie dyers! They won’t be here next week – but they’ll be here in October.) Also, we are heading out of town on Friday morning to visit College Guy for Parent’s Weekend at his college. (I know – I’m spoiled, aren’t I?) So orders placed Thursday night and into the weekend, will start shipping on Monday morning.
And now, the September Loopy Loot contest. Since Fall is my favorite season, I’d love to know something that you like about the Fall. Do you have certain family traditions for the season? Special recipes that you make? Decorations that you love? A favorite Fall memory from your childhood? What makes the Fall special for you and your familiy? Leave your answer in the blog comments and we’ll randomly pick one winner. This month, the winner will receive two skeins of highly coveted yarn – a skein of Wollmeise in Raku-Regenbogen (I kept one of these for myself!) PLUS a skein of the beautiful Pumpkin Spice from Yarntini. Woohoo!
Sheri whatbetterwaytocelebrateFallthanwithnewyarnfortheseason?
I love fall! There is something refreshing about the air turning crisp and bright again after a long, hot hazy summer, so i like to take stock of everything (much like people do for new year’s) and make list of my resolutions and goals for the year (I do this again in late Decmeber and in the spring). I also love to take inventory of my closets and clean everything out. It’s a good time to start over, i think. Did I mention how much I love fall/winter clothes?
My favorite thing about Fall is the end of the summer heat! But along with that idea is cooking again. It’s too hot in the summer to use the oven more than a few minutes but in the Fall I turn again to casseroles, baking bread, etc.
Fall is the birthday season in my household, all but one of us are Fall babies.
I love the crisp mornings and the way everything smells so clean.
Early Fall is one of the best times to luck out on my favorite weather, a warmish day where it starts to rain while the sun is still out. It’s soooo beautiful.
Ps, you’re not the only one with both a mug & bag problem. The glass cupboard is bowed under the weight of my collection, even though I try to follow the one in one out rule now. I especially can’t resist the handcrafted ones, even more dangerous is the lady I see at festivals who will custom make pieces for us.
Ah the Fall. Admittedly, my favorite season of the year is summer, but in fall, I LOVE the cool mornings, being able to WEAR the socks I’ve made, the fireplace, making a big pot of soup and most importantly wearing my big warm, fluffy robe! Having lived in southern California all my life, it’s not too often we get to do this! It’s so exciting when we have to break out the sweatshirts!
Fall is my favorite season even though it is terribly short (2-3 weeks tops) this far north. Still, the Lower 48 does have nice autumns and this year I’ll be able to see some of the colors. Autumn is marathon season and I’ll be running in the Marine Corps marathon in Washington, D.C this October. With any luck, the trees will still have pretty leaves. Ours are all down now and we’ve had snow at higher elevations already. Sigh, its winter.
Fall is my favorite season, too! I love the cooling weather, and overcast days, and most of all, FOOTBALL! I love college football, especially, and I always root for my alma mater, LSU — GEAUX TIGERS!
What is not to love about Fall? There is the crisp air, the red and gold leaves and a sense of excitement for the upcomng holidays. My Fall tradition is to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. We celebrate the loved ones who touched our lives and have passed away. it’s a time to make and eat the food that they loved, share our fondest memories of them and rejoice in their spirit. For me, Fall is a time of remembrance and celebration, making it my favorite season of the year.
I’m a summer girl myself, so I am not a big fan of fall. However, I am a gourd artist and the big gourd festival in Northern California is always at the end of September. I love that event….I can stock up on gourds and supplies all in one place! And the very best part is Thanksgiving. I love cooking a huge dinner for family and friends. We all look forward to lots of turkey and champagne!
Fall is my favorite. It usually starts right after our state fair, which I attend to celebrate my birthday. Fall is nature walks to collect leaves, pumpkin anything, soups and hand-knit wool socks. Ah, the socks. That is really my favorite part of Fall.
Fall is absolutely my favorite season. Fresh apple cider, giant leaf piles, the return of handknit socks. (How do people wear wool in the summer?!) Mostly though, I love that my family starts listening to Christmas music as soon as we start closing the windows. (The neighbors already think we’re crazy, they don’t need more ammo.) I know, I know, you’re not supposed to start with the Christmas music until after Thanksgiving, but that’s what I grew up doing, and it’s not fall without it, you know?
Fall? My favorite time of year!
First off, my favorite colors! Don’t get me wrong, I love gardening from the earliest crocus in the spring on through to the very last Rose that holds out to bloom until the end of November (it’s in a sheltered spot and always manages one more in the end), but give me the glorious rainbow of the turning leaves and the changing hues of greens in the grasses for true joy!
Then there’s the good food. Apples, and pumpkin things, and squashes of all varieties, and apples, and trips to the pumpkin farm for the last of the roasted corn and to pick a peck of fresh apples (yes, I like apples) and get the decorations that take us through to Thanksgiving. Did I mention food? š
Then there’s the discussions of the Northwestern football season with my bff Liz (waving up the comments) and the energy expended by yelling at the TV or radio while watching or listening to my “Heart Attack Cats” play yet another game.
Oh, and don’t forget, the beginning of Opera season. This means I get at least one evening a month where I get to dress up and go out to dinner with a good friend and hear some great music and see some wonderful acting and scenery and costumes. At least until the end of the season, about which time the gardening starts again, so we’re all good. š
Then there’s the approaching holiday gift giving season, which means the fun of plotting and creating things for good friends and family comes into play. I love going through my yarn stash to see what I’ve got for whom, and figuring out what I still need to acquire. I love the mad rush to try and get the stuff done that needs to be shipped while fighting off severe startitis to cast on the next thing which always looks more interesting, even if it is another pair of the same socks or another scarf in a different color.
And don’t forget, I can get out my sweaters and warm fuzzy shawls and wrap up again!
Yea. Fall. It pretty much has it all as far as I’m concerned.
The chill in fall mornings remind me of grade-school days when my knee socks slithered down my skinny legs to pool at my ankles, of running breathlessly up the hill to get to St. Joseph’s School before the loudly insistent buzzing bell sounded and the cruel nuns locked the school doors against all latecomers. Fall reminds me of “Sunday night dread,” that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when a bright weekend fades into a mundane week of homework and plaid uniforms. Even as an adult, I have a hard time embracing fall and letting go of the warmth of summer, trading the shredded pink sunsets for the stark purply gray sky that settles so quickly on a Tuesday evening. Fall’s crisp apples and rattly leaves remind me that ithis season will move past swiftly, toward Christmas, toward winter days and magically, far over the horizon, back to spring’s caress and summer’s heat.
Fall to me means raking, raking, raking and I love it!!! It’s so satisfying to work so hard and actually SEE the fruit of the labor. Praise God for His creation and His changing seasons! =)
Diane in Alaska
Fall is my favorite season too! I love to leave the windows open at night and wake up in the morning to the chilly air (better for snuggling in the covers, even if it does make me late for work…)
For my husband, fall means apple strudel (which I learned to make from his mom last year – I’m still working on it…)
For me, the best part of fall as a kid was when my dad would take us on “adventure drives” on Sunday afternoons. We never really had a desitination, other than looking at the leaves and maybe finding an apple orchard for some cider. And of course cider donuts! if I had to pick one thing, I’d say they’re the best part of fall.
Fall is my favorite season as well. Last year, my special someone and I went to a local attraction to see the Monarch butterflies released for their journey south to Mexico. This year, we’ll have that same date, but his son and my kids are joining us as a combined group for the very first time. It’s the end of summer on Saturday, but just the start of our families getting to know to each other. Wish us luck! š
Fall has always been my favorite season. I love the colors, the falling leaves, the food, the outdoor activities, the warmth of wool and flannel and fleece, the texture of wool yarn as I knit and the lovely return of my wool, handknit socks!! It is the beginning of quilts and comforters, mittens and scarves, ghosts and goblins, turkeys and pumpkins, apple cobblers and butternut squash.
What an awesome time of the year!!
So many things about fall – the blessed coolness, Halloween and Thanksgiving and preparation for Christmas, long walks and bike rides, snuggling under the blankets on a cool night, hoping for an early snow, new clothes and shoes, piles of leaves to rake and jump in. astoundingly beautiful colors (I grew up in New England), and maybe best of all, the new sweaters and mittens my mom and grandmother would knit for me. I stlll have some of them.
Janice in VA
I’m originally from Australia, and autumn there just doesn’t have the same links to Halloween and pumpkins that we’ve enjoyed in our two-and-a-bit years here in the US. I do have lots of fond memories as a kid of stirring up leaves at primary school (elementary school here) – a few friends and I would race around during breaks and scoop all the elm leaves into piles, and then either busy ourselves in the piles or start throwing them at one another. Made for some strange looks from the teachers when we came back into class looking like scarecrows š
Autumn is my favorite season of the year, I absolutely adore watching the foliage!
I love the cooler, crisp air, playing with the kids in the piles of leaves. Baking, I love to get baking, cookies, cakes, perhaps some new receipe? Yum!
It is a calming time for me, in itself. I’m more relaxed. I may not have many decorations to put up and that would be because I’m busy enjoying EVERY MINUTE of it, truthfully. š
Halloween is also a favorite of sorts along with the Fall Harvest intervals in between, I love the scarecrows, the witches, I love it all, lol!
It nicely ends in a most thankfull tone; Thanksgiving. A time where we gather together, cook tons of food up to go along with our turkeys, and just having a unified family time.
Knitting; I start to knit more, I think. Knitting is comforting, especially when its colder out, I love it!
Autumn, is the best!
Sheri, I live in southcentral Virginia, so fall doesn’t usually get started here until October (sometimes later than that). My birthday is in mid-October and frequently the whole family (Mom, Dad, DH, brother, sis-in-law, etc) will get together for a drive to the mountains to enjoy the leaves changing! It’s absolulety gorgeous!
And there’s the fall menus – I start cooking chil and lots of soups – potatoe, onion, …
Lastly, my knitting mojo usually improves and I feel like knitting something besides socks! Right now I’m trying to get a Baby Surprise Jacket done for a baby shower at the end of this month and you’d think I was working on the most complex pattern out there – I think I’m finally on the right track! it is my first BSJ (for my first great-niece!).
Carol in Prince George, VA
I live in Michigan. In my humble opinion its one of the most beautiful states for fall in the U.S. The colors on the trees and shrubs, the smell in the air and the clear nights. I’m sure that comment will be debated. lol! Lets see if I can number why I like fall the best out of the seasons.
1) A return to cooking indoors. By the beginning of September I’m pretty tired of grilled everything. I miss the Pot Roasts, Roasted Chicken and pasta dishes I make in the fall and winter. I may not be the bestest cook, but I like to do it.
2) I live on an island and there is noticably less pleasure boat traffic and a seemingly increase of freighter traffic. Those guys trying to get there loads to where they need to go before the water freezes sometime in November.
3) Knitting (!) after dinner at night when its chilly. The radio on and I’m knitting away.
4) With work, there are less kids with broken bones from trampolines, monkey bars and skateboards. There are less broken pelvises. I always know its summertime because of motorcycle accidents and busted pelvises. Not pleasant. (I’m an orthopedic surgical nurse in the OR). In fall, there are more kids with ACL injuries and other injuries from school sports. Not pleasant either, but less dramatic for sure.
There are probably more reasons, but these are the most vivid for me. These aren’t in order of importance, either.
I love the change of seasons, in general.
Pumpkin EVERYTHING. Pie. Cheesecake. Hubby’s favorite, the pumpkin roll (cake). My favorite – pumpkin bread pudding. Walking my dog along our tree-lined road with the variegated display of nature…
Apples too. Apple cheese crisp. Apple-carmel bread pudding. (Does bread pudding need its own paragraph maybe?) Fresh apples. Baked apples. Apple cider.
I could keep this up all day, but I think my new favorite fall tradition is pulling out my knitted socks!
I like to take a drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The leaves are beautiful and commercial traffice is prohibited on the parkway. Another favorite drive is along US 26 toward Asheville, NC thru Sams Gap. Then, when I get to Asheville, there are some great yarn shops!
hmm, there are so many things to love about fall! I love fall fairs with all the smells and delicious food, apple picking, being able to cook without overheating the house!, changing colours on the leaves, handknit socks and sweaters and that feeling of starting fresh (even now that I’m not in school, fall seems like a time for fresh starts to me. I’ve never made a new year’s resolution, oddly.) Hands down, my favourite thing about fall – is walking on crunchy leaves!
fall is my favorite season too and always reminds me of vermont. my pseudo uncle would make this soup on our annual leaf peeping weekend! Here’s an excerpt from my cookbook in progress…
Uncle Jeanās Pumpkin Soup
My fatherās long-time best friend had a wonderful old farmhouse in Bristol, Vermont. An avid pipe smoker, the house smelled wonderfully rich and spicy. He was never without his pipe and even turned it upside down to smoke in the shower!
I have so many good memories of his hospitality and his cooking. We could never get used watching this slim man devour such enormous quantities food at every sitting. This soup was my favorite. I am sure Uncle Jean is up there in heaven humming and puttering and smoking his pipe.
1 4-5 pound pumpkin
1 quart heavy cream
1 pint milk
4 ounces grated cheese (Gruyere and/or cheddar)
1 large tablespoon tomato paste
Seed and peel pumpkin, cutting it into chunks. In a heavy bottomed pot, put pumpkin in first, then one pint, 1 pint milk and 1 pint cream.
Cook on low heat until pumpkin is very tender. Using a food processor or blender, puree the soup.
I used to not be very fond of autumn at all — it was cold, meant the end of fun summers and the beginning of school drudgery, and the waning year seemed to me very depressing.
But not anymore! Now, I find the shift from summer’s heat welcome, enjoy the crisp scent of the fallen leaves and woodsmoke (even in the heart of the city), look fondly on ‘back-to-school’ time with a bit of envy for new university students, and look forward to long walks outdoors that end in steaming mugs of apple cider with cinnamon. And of course, autumn is a great time to show off those hand-knits, and plan for new projects, lovely warm knits to pool on my lap as I curl up on the couch to knit and drink tea. What a good season this is!
Fall means football, and apple picking, which meams that there is a constant supply of the local apple farm’s apple cider in the fridge. It’s the best cider – I missed it terribly when I was away at college and even more so when I moved to Texas. Fall also means Chicken BBQ. Every year, the nuns at my old high school put on a chicken bbq. We (5 kids in the family) all had to work it as service hours (aka cheap labor) and we’ve been going for as long as I can remember (my mom also went to high school there). Gotta love their apple struedel.
I am a cool/cold weather person through and through, so I love fall and winter. It is sweater weather, and time to do lots of baking and cooking. But, the best thing about fall now is my daughter’s birthday. Two years ago I had a rough September, spending many weeks in the hospital, first for me, then with a baby in the NICU. Now I have a thriving two-year old who I just adore! (Her birthday was yesterday.)
Oh, that’s a tough one – there’s something about the craziness of summer melting into fall which is oh so soothing… I love these weeks when I can sleep with the windows open and experience just the right level of chill. Oh, and Halloween – these weeks leading up to Halloween – I love the spookiness!
Wow, it’s amazing who comes out of the woodworks for the contests! lol
Fall is my favorite season too, mainly because all the evil bugs die. š hehe And I can wear fun socks again.
Have fun visiting College Guy and a belated Happy Birthday to WH!
Fall is just the best. It’s the return of sweaters, the return of warm drinks, the return of comfort foods without guilt or heating the house up too much. But the best thing about fall is enjoying the crisp, cool air. It’s espcially good when taking a walk in the woods to see the changing leaves, but it’s fantastic pretty much any time.
I always say fall is my favorite season…until it’s spring, and then spring is my favorite season…until it’s fall again. So on and so forth. I love the clear blue skies you get in fall, especially against the technicolor leaves. But my absolute favorite part of fall is getting to leap about in piles of leaves. Yes, I go out of my way to crunch through an especially appealing pile on the street. Can you tell I’m a New Englander? I really missed fall in Cairo, so I’m just lapping it up now.
Well, apple picking with friends is a great time always. Unfortunately, the farms in the area are dwindling, even though on the weekends tons of city folk (even a bunch of city folk who were never country folk) would love to come out and do the apple picking or the pick-your-own pumpkin patch.
I love Fall, especially walking in The Park, but the cooler weather sends mice and such looking for warmer places to call home. I saw one out on my fire escape last week, and live in terror of any breaches to the walls. I don’t think Duchess (surprisingly tough kitty for her name) would tolerate vermin, but hopefully we won’t have to find out.
Ah well, life in NYC…
My favorite fall tradition: Every Thanksgiving (and sometimes earlier in the fall too!) we used to go to visit family friends waaaaaaay out in the middle of nowhere in eastern Oregon, and while my dad was elk hunting we girls would make turkey, stuffing, yams, green beans, four different kinds of pie… more food than all of us could eat in a week! Once my dad took me out hunting with him, and we snuck through the forest on a very cold and misty morning before dawn–all you could see were dark trees with grey fog wreathing around them, and elk-shadows slipping through all around us, and the only sound was the elk bugling and calling to each other. My dad is a crack shot but he didn’t shoot anything that day–I think he didn’t want to spoil it for me!
Fall is all about apples and pumpkins and turning leaves! For me it’s a time of renewal. The end of summer and the beginning of my favorite season and I always make new resolutions at this time!
Fall to me means long “conversations” about all kinds of things with the family. In Georgia, it’s too hot and humid most days to sit outside, so you know it’s fall when we start migrating outside to talk and laugh.
Fall for me means wearing all the hard work I’ve done all summer-sweaters and of course, socks! Halloween is my daughter’s favorite holiday, she gets to be a Care Bear (she’s almost 3!) and she’s so cute! This year is going to be different without her daddy around (he’s leaving for Iraq in a couple of weeks), but I know we’ll make lots of cookies and pies! She helps roll out the dough of course! And we’ll have to start some new traditions as well, like only wearing hand knit socks!
Fall has always been my favorite time of the year. Living in Florida, it always meant the end of the oppressive heat, turning off the air-conditioner and opening up the house (not to mention saving on electricity!) Fall in Florida, while not very colorful, is the best weather anywhere. Cool days, crisp nights, beautiful clear skies, and an occasional blustery day to make you want to snuggle up and knit. There’s nothing finer. Fall now is tinged with sadness though as it is when I lost my mom, but I have so many memories of good times we had together, especially Thanksgivings when we would share cooking duties and then sneak out of town for the rest of the long weekend to start our Christmas shopping. I will miss those trips the most.
Sheri, tell WH that no woman ever shot a man while he was doing the dishes (or wearing an apron!). š Happy fall, everyone.
Well, aside from the annual baking of the pumpkin muffins, my 4-year-old son & I have a very special autumn tradition. We volunteer for Soldier’s Angels. Basically, we “adopt” a soldier and send him or her letters and car packages every month that he or she is deployed overseas. Since our soldiers have always been deployed to the desert, we drive around St. Louis County and take photos of the gorgeous trees after the leaves have begun to turn. We also pick a few leaves from every tree we photograph. We bake leaf-shaped sugar cookies (in fall colors) and put it all in a box to ship overseas. Our soldiers have always loved receiving “Autumn-in-a-Box,” and it makes the season that much more special for us.
I love the colors! The lemon, pumpkin, tomato and nut brown of changing leaves splashing across the diminishing greens of deciduous trees and shrubs. The clear, intense blue of the sky on a windy autumn day. Lovely!
Being Chinese, we celebrate the moon festival in the fall and it’s a great time for all those fall harvest celebrations but my favorite are the moon cakes that are made and eaten at the moon festival.
There’s not much I don’t love about fall. The cooler weather is wonderful for getting outside in. In KC, the Renaissance Festival is this time every year, we always try to get there one of the early October weekends. My kids love Halloween and costumes and stringing purple and orange lights all over the front porch. We always end up with more pumpkins that I know what to do with, considering one of my sons will not allow them to be cut!
My favorite fall tradition is to go the local ciderfest. This year will be the fourth year with my daughter. We always take a picture of her in front of the HUGE cider press and she usually gets a caramel apple. She’s even worn the same orange sweater with candy corn buttons for the past two years and it will probably fit this year.
I live in Florida now and we don’t really have fall… š
Growing up in West Virginia, fall was the most beautiful time of the year. I miss raking leaves and jumping in. I miss the smell of wood smoke in the air. Planting tulips! Football! Carving a pumpkin and waiting for the first snow.
The fall just yanks me out of the house and into the outdoors. I live in the south where summers are miserable. So fall gives me the opportunity to explore the outdoors without having to arm myself against heat stroke and pesky bugs. I spent yesterday evening outdoors with my knitting. I think wool likes to be outside too.
For me, the thing I like best about fall is the cooling of the temperature. After enduring months of triple digit temperatures where you couldn’t breath outdoors, I look forward to being outside again. I can spend time on my porch swing and knit in the cool of the evening. I can play in the leaves with the kids or actually do a little gardening without fear of heat stroke. Of course, we also enjoy all the traditional trappings of fall – the turning leaves, the fresh apples, picking pumpkins, spiced cider. If it weren’t for the ragweed, fall would be perfect!
Fall is my favorite season too. The very best memory from my childhood is the smell of burning leaves–that is the very essence of fall. Now I have to settle for the smell of my neighbors fireplaces on those crisp fall nights and that is pretty nice too.
Fall is my absolute favorite time of the yeah, although in Florida, we really don’t have much of one! (if we do, it get here in December!) I grew up in Louisiana and every Thanksgiving, my mom’s side of the family would get together at the local Woodman Hall for a pot luck dinner. It was huge! We’d have 50 or so people there who would travel to this tiny town in Louisiana to see family we only saw once a year. The food was magnificent. My Uncle Bob would bring his big bbq pit and we’d do chicken and then there would be fried turkey (before it was popular) and every kind of good Southern side dish and dessert you could think of! A fire would usually be built in the big fireplace because it had finally gotten cold enough to justify building one and we’d have someone play the piano and we’d all sing. Two of my cousins would play the violin or sing and the little kids would run around outside in the leaves and pinestraw. The fun thing is that we usually went there twice that day, we’d eat early around 11;30 (the older generation liked to eat early!) and then we’d go back later that evening for leftovers after watching the football games! I think that is what I miss about small town life.
Fall is my favorite season too! Unfortunately, although I grew up in Kansas and Pennsylvania, I now live in Southern California where we don’t really have fall. How I miss it! Fall to me means sweaters, soccer games, soup, fires in the fireplace, the crisp smell in the air and, most of all, the changing leaves! Pennsylvania has the most beautiful fall colors.
Now I’m sad for all those things. Thanks a lot Sheri! š
Oh, how I love fall. My friends and I have a tradition of going to a corn maze. It claims to be the world’s largest, but how do you really measure something like that? Anyway, we go to the corn maze once it gets dark, get lost in the corn for a couple of hours and then go back to a friend’s house for a bonfire and s’mores. Can’t beat it! š