Fall is great, isn’t it? It’s fresh and crisp and smells nice, and the leaves start turning their leaves to remind us that winter is coming. In New England we get brilliant foliage in reds and oranges that make the mountains look like hot embers. In Wyoming the cottonwoods, aspens, and cedars turn a beautiful gold that shimmers in the autumnal sun.
I was walking today, as I do every day, down Massachusetts Avenue near my workplace, and saw this tree. I see it every day and it’s just a regular old maple tree growing on the street corner. But for the last few days its leaves have been turning red, and today, due to the cool light of the rainy cloudy weather, it was particularly vibrant. This isn’t a very good picture because I took it with my camera phone, and really doesn’t do the tree justice. But I had to share anyhow because it got me thinking about all of the things I particularly love about fall. My top ten (in no special order) are:
- apples
- harvest moons
- crisp air
- wearing socks again
- wearing sweaters again
- football
- new school supplies
- fall foliage
- misty mornings
- warm soups
What are yours?
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1 October, 2008 at 21:00
Pants
all of the above, plus
11. baseball ending
12. apple pie (corollary to #1 really)
13. mulled wine (more of a winter thing but fall gets me excited for it)
14. lack of humidity (=better hair days)
15. Halloween, specifically candy and Gordon in costumes
16. Sam Adams Octoberfest
happy october anna banna!
2 October, 2008 at 19:16
Annie
Gorgeous tree!!
All your faves are mine too 🙂 I also love:
Hot drinks–mulled apple cider and hot chocolate
Bringing out the big comforters and burrowing under the covers!
Apple crisp and baked acorn squash
Crisp smell of the leaves/fall and crunch of the leaves under my feet
10 October, 2008 at 20:26
KatieCampusLife
*Sweater weather!
*No Frizzy hair days!
*Marching Band…I know corny, but the band kid in me can’t help but take in all the crisp fall evening air without thinking it’s a great night for a high school football game or a band tournament.
*cold cidar
*those pumpkin spice ginger cookies