Falling For It
Today is August 31, 2012….really?
Are we really on the cusp of another fall season?
I absolutely LOVE the fall, it is my favorite time of year. The mornings are crisp, the night air is perfect for sleeping, schools are back in session, the fall colors start to emerge, Football Season begins, there’s apple picking and haunted hayrides, Hockey Season begins, Halloween happens, we survive all of that eating on Thanksgiving and then, in my family, we work it all off with standing in lines at 10pm that night for Black Friday doorbusters! (AND my birthday falls between Halloween and Thanksgiving! :-p) What is not to love?
Fall to me has always represented new beginnings, even though it is really the end of a cycle. I feel like the fall has so much more to offer than all of the other seasons. There is color and life even as the leaves are technically dying. Pumpkins, scarecrows, harvest. The smells of fall. Oh, man, if you close your eyes and think of a cool Sunday afternoon with an apple pie or apple crisp baking in the oven. Or something slow-cooking all day in the crockpot. The aromas touch our senses and remind us of the comforts of home. Warm baked bread to go with mom’s slow-cooked beef stew. And while it’s sad that now we have to go back to the supermarket for our “fresh” vegetables, our tastes turn to things with a little more substance, like mashed potatoes and gravy, pot roast, meatloaf and turkey dinners with all of the fixings! Mmmmmm.
I love to curl up when it is just cool enough to need a blanket and grab a hot cup of tea and maybe a freshly baked muffin or coffee cake made with the apples we picked from the orchard (I’m starting to notice a pattern here about food! haha). The bottom line is that the fall holds so many special memories for me that I can’t help but just submerge myself in it! Seriously, if there was a giant pile of leaves in front of me right now, I would run and jump in it!
There aren’t many times of the year that I get this excited for. What can I say? I’m a sucker for fall. I just fall for it every time….