I Love Fall

Fall Leaves

If a season could be a gateway drug, fall would be mine. The main event is Christmas. I love the smells, sounds and emotions that come with that holiday. But Christmas time seems so short.

Fall gives me time to savor many things I love.

I love to walk through farmer’s markets and selecting from a wide array of fresh and colorful bounty grown and harvested for buyers like me to enjoy.

I love taking long drives to see the lush landscape of God’s creation filled with red, yellow and orange leaves.

I love smelling the aroma released by the fallen leaves as I go for an afternoon walk through a park or my neighborhood.

I love Sunday afternoons watching football games after church. After the game, I love taking naps under a plush flannel throw while smelling the apple and spice scented candle burning nearby.

I love shopping for fall themed fabric for aprons and the challenge to find something unique for a potential customer.

I love changing my wardrobe from white jeans and linen tops to blue jeans and black turtlenecks.

I enjoy creating dishes to simmer all day long with my farmers market finds. I feel “homey” when I smell the aroma from a dish as it cooks for hours and enjoying it at the end of the day.

I love evenings on the porch or in front of a fire pit drinking a glass of red wine. I love relaxing into the quietness as I sit wrapped in a sweater thinking of nothing as a cool breeze occasionally comes by.

Fall comes filled with celebrations! Halloween spent Trick- or Treating or Truck or Treating. Birthdays of family and friends (I celebrate my birthday on November 14!), planning Thanksgiving dinner, anticipating the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, sweater weather. Leather jackets and an excuse to play the Peanuts Holiday Collection.

These scenes of fall put a smile on my face. Simply put, they make me happy. No other season stirs in me such anticipation to receive its arrival. Only fall.

What is your favorite season?