Things you love about autumn?

[Stone-Butch]

End of another year is coming soon and the promise of a lot of new things we can look forward to in the new year.

[Bèsame*]

I have earrings similar to these. It's fun to bring out the Halloween decorations, even if just for a few days.

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[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

https://allibreathe.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hellonovember.jpg

[Kätzchen]

Pumpkins, Delicata squash, gords, dinner-plate Dahlia arrangements, pinecones to use in the fireplace....

We are looking forward to decorating our home this year. :balloon:

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[Gemme]

I love the crisp air, the snap of a fire, working without sweating, soups and stews, wearing my hair down, warm/soft/fuzzy pajamas, the changing of the leaves and the color orange (it's everywhere!).

[homoe]

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Hello October

[homoe]

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[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

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[kittygrrl]

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a perfect autumn treat

[kittygrrl]

it's timehttps://jeanetteshealthyliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Pumpkin-Spice-Latte-4.jpg

[Reach *BANNED*]

Everything about it - especially when it arrives!!

However, My two favorite things about it are the cooler temps and the inevitable changing of the leaves- especially here where I live - they are a sight to see!

[kittygrrl]

when i can't sleep
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[Stone-Butch]

The air seems cleaner. The hot sticky summer is taking a break. Soon be time to turn on the fireplace and relax with feet up and a hot cup of coffee.

[kittygrrl]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

The words cozy and snuggle are used a lot more. I also like getting out My Fall/Winter clothing too.

I am also looking forward to decorating the back patio with a Fall/Halloweenish feel - and having a fire burning in the metal firepit.

[kittygrrl]

https://princesspinkygirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pumpkin-Spice-Muffins-3-500x500.jpg
pumpkin spice muffins:hk11:

[Orema]

I love the trees in my neighborhood and they will be "showing out" in the upcoming weeks. Summer is my favorite season, but fall (and winter) in Michigan is something to behold.

The beauty of the changing leaves takes your breath away. Here's a shot of a nearby country road in western michigan.

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Photo borrowed from visitmuskegon.org.

And I saw my first woodpecker of the season. They're out and about year round, but I only saw my first one of the year yesterday. It was a woodpecker with a red head. Very cool.

[kittygrrl]

i can't ever get enough pumpkin
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[Orema]

Panera's Vegetarian Autumn Squash Soup. So good.

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[gurlnextdoor]

falling leaves
wood smoke drifting in the air
apple-picking
cozy knitted sweaters
pumkins of all shapes and sizes
making big pots of soup

[Bèsame*]

birthdays
outside fire pits
sharing coffee
football

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[VintageFemme]

e v e r y

s i n g l e

l i t t l e

t h i n g!


🍁


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[Stone-Butch]

walking through the leaves at the park and watching the fur babies and winged ones going for their winter storage food every time you drop some.

[kittygrrl]

i love being in the midst forest in autumn https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/thumbnails/007/536/304/small/close-up-cinematic-zoom-out-front-view-young-caucasian-woman-stand-in-forest-look-up-to-trees-in-autumn-nature-outdoors-leaves-falling-in-slow-motion-in-forest-travel-destination-video.jpgi am occasionally in my dreams

[Reach *BANNED*]

The smell of the crisp air. Wearing My hoodies. Watching the trees that start shedding their leaves. Fall and Holiday bazaars.

[nhplowboi]

Living in New England and knowing it is our last hurrah before the dreaded white comes, it is embraced like a long lost friend and held tightly. Inhaling, feeling, seeing and taking everything in to last one through the coming frigid season.

[Stone-Butch]

Cool days and nights make for a wonderful walk in the park and great sleeping at night.

[FireSignFemme]

The wicked, dreaded people on the list start putting on their best behavior, acting a little better knowing the gift giving season and soon time for them to be lazy is rolling around. Is it genuine, sincere, long lasting, does it help get the dishes done? Nope but it is a bit a reprieve and that I can appreciate.

[Bèsame*]

change
/CHānj/

verb
1.
make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.
"both parties voted against proposals to change the law"
2.
replace (something) with something else, especially something of the same kind that is newer or better; substitute one thing for (another).
"she decided to change her name"
noun
1.
the act or instance of making or becoming different.

Seasons change🍁🍁🍁🍁

[Bèsame*]

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long shadows

[VintageFemme]

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p u m p k i n
p i e
:heartbeat:

[VintageFemme]

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[easygoingfemme]

Sleeping with the windows open
Fall camping, bundling up in my tent
Food in the crock pot
A break from the summer heat.

[kittygrrl]

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fog in the morning

[kittygrrl]

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w cocoa

[kittygrrl]

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[Gemme]

Fall is my favorite season! It seems to get shorter and shorter every year, though.

I love the smells and the cooler temps the best. I work outside a lot of the time and being able to do manual labor without breaking a sweat is fantastic. There are many folks near me that have fireplaces and when they light them up at night, I love the smell of charred wood in the air as well as pumpkin and spiced apple candles burning.

I used to love the crunch of leaves under my feet but now that I have to clean those slivers of leaf up on a regular basis, not so much. I have the exact same feeling towards snow, but that's an entirely different season.

[Mopsie]

I love the cooler weather, I love the changing leaves, I love that it’s football season again. I love that I want to make things like soup and hot chocolate and snuggle under a blanket.

[Soft*Silver]

I have gigantic pumpkins in my pumpkin patch!

[kittygrrl]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

The patchwork of color on the rolling hills of where I live. The smell of wood burning. Burying Myself further under the covers of My bed.

[Orema]

I love the cooler evenings when I can wear my favorite mint-colored pajamas.

I love going on my deck with a cup of decaf and just looking at the huge oak tree that’s slowly changing this year.

Most of all I like turning on the heated mattress pad a few minutes before bed. Then it’s nice and warm when I get in it. And it’s nice and warm on the other side of the bed when I turn over in the middle of the night.

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[Orema]

How to Time Your Leaf-Peeping Trip This Fall

By Debra Kamin
Oct. 4, 2022

From New England to California, and points in between, the symphony of colors that accompanies the arrival of a snap in the air is playing out differently in 2022.

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AccuWeather predicts that peak colors in places like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northern New York will come late this year, in mid- to late October. Above, fall in Grafton Notch State Park, Maine. Credit...Stacey Cramp for The New York Times

Planning a pilgrimage to enjoy the brilliant fall leaves will be trickier this year.

Months of record-breaking drought in the Northeast have deprived trees of water, and in the West, nearly 100 large fires have swept a path of destruction across seven states.

From California to Oklahoma to Maine, the symphony of colors that accompanies the arrival of a snap in the air is playing out differently in 2022. But leaf-peepers need not despair. Those looking to feast their eyes on the vibrant foliage of fall will have plenty to savor this year, as long as they plan it right.

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The effects of climate change

“It’s no question that climate change is impacting leaf-peeping season,” said Dr. Gordon Ober, a professor of environmental science at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass.

The impact, Dr. Ober said, can be seen in a few ways: The height of leaf-peeping season is arriving later and sticking around for a shorter period of time.

“Due to warmer weather, the growing season of broadleaf trees in the Northeast and out West is being extended,” he said. “Peak leaf-peeping a few decades ago would happen earlier in the fall, and now it typically happens later on.”

According to Dr. Ober, warm temperatures are keeping some trees green later into the season, staving off the glorious crimson and gold colors that leaf-peepers love. In other regions, a lack of rain is turning others prematurely brown.

This year is shaping up to be the fifth-warmest year in recorded history (https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2022-on-track-for-a-summer-of-extreme-heat/#:~:text=In%20the%20NASA%20dataset,%202022,to%20a% 201981-2010%20baseline.). The summer of 2022 brought record-breaking heat across the globe. As the mercury rose, water levels dipped dangerously — by August, severe to extreme drought affected more than a quarter of the contiguous United States (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/drought/202208#:~:text=National%20Drought%20Highlights,sev erely%20to%20extremely%20wet%20categories.), and as of late September, a quarter of the Northeast continues to experience abnormally low rainfall.

Dr. Nicole Davi, who leads the environmental science department at William Paterson University, studies trees and the effects that events like extreme weather have on them. She is currently conducting field work in New York’s Catskill Mountains, and said that in many places, this year’s viewing season felt over before it even began.

“We’ve had a pretty serious drought this season, and that can mute colors. What I see in the lower Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey is they’ve kind of skipped the foliage altogether,” she said. “You see how stressed trees have become, and when they’re stressed, you’re not going to see the same brilliance in color.”

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New Hampshire is among the states where fall foliage is expected to peak later than usual this year. Credit...Greta Rybus for The New York Times

When and where to find colors

The good news is that travelers looking for the best colors can lean on hindsight as a guide.

“This season is expected to largely mirror the 2021 season,” said Alan Reppert, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.

AccuWeather predicts that peak colors in places like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northern New York will come late this year, in mid- to late October, rather than their usual appearance in late September and the first week of October. This was last year’s trend, as well.

In Michigan and northern Minnesota, leaves will likely drop earlier than usual, thanks to cold fronts, and AccuWeather also predicts that in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, which is popular for its colorful leaves, foliage has already peaked.

Leaf peepers in the Northeast who may have been hoping that the late summer rains in that region would salvage their season will be disappointed, Mr. Reppert said, because it came too late to undo the damage of a dry midsummer.

“Trees start to prepare for the fall leaf change around the Fourth of July, and rainfall and drought conditions from this point onward really determine the outlook for fall,” he said.

From Boston to New York City, AccuWeather predicts that fall foliage will underperform, and leaves will drop off trees early in the season. Colors are likely to be muted across the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains, including eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southeastern New York.

And in parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island, some leaves are already turning brown.

In other parts of the country, however, the outlook — and the colors — will be brighter.

Beginning in early October, western Oregon and Washington State are predicted to put on a vibrant display, thanks to a snowy winter and plenty of rain in the spring and early summer. They should reach their peak just before the end of the month.

“Olympic National Park in Washington is one of the places along the West Coast where foliage is expected to be on full display this year,” Mr. Reppert said.

Plenty of rain across the Upper Midwest, the Great Lakes and the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi valleys also point to a strong showing for fall colors, and a viewing season that takes off in mid-October and lasts through early November.

Meanwhile, leaf peepers in California, Nevada and western New Mexico, where moderate to extreme drought has persisted for the past two years, can expect a shorter season that doesn’t peak until the end of October, is marked by duller colors and dies out by early November.

Northern California’s trees will offer more brilliance. But wildfire risk in the area means that those traveling to see the leaves should monitor weather conditions and exercise caution.

And from Missouri to Illinois to eastern Kentucky, the bright colors will actually linger longer than usual, with peak colors holding past the first week of November.

In these areas, “in late July and early August, there were 1-in-1,000-year floods that occurred within six days of each other,” Mr. Reppert said. “That increased moisture level will mean states in this region will have longer leaf-peeping periods than in years past.”

And in the eastern Rocky Mountains, a summer of monsoon rains is expected to give way to colors that are particularly vibrant.

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Fall foliage near Grant, Colo.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times

Other resources

There are multiple online resources to help leaf-peepers plan the timing and location of their visits.

A fall foliage prediction map (https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/) produced by Smoky Mountains National Park lets users check color projections on a weekly basis between Sept. 5 and Nov. 21, across the entire country.

Travelers in New England can consult the New England Fall Foliage 2022 Forecast (https://newengland.com/today/today/new-england-fall-foliage-2022-forecast/), produced by New England Today, and travelers with smartphones can download the Gaia GPS app (https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/advice/gaia-gps-fall-foliage-app/), created by Outside Online, to check live satellite images of foliage and time their visits accordingly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/travel/fall-foliage-united-states-timing.htm

[kittygrrl]

autumn leaves in the dark the moon rise..i could love forever

[kittygrrl]

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[Orema]

The first frost (https://www.lowes.com/n/how-to/understand-frost-and-freeze-dates). It occurs when the tempertures drop low enough to produce frost on veggies and fruit. It happens in October in my neck of the woods.

It’s a key date for farmers and planters and it’s the date my mama would pull the last of her greens from her vegetable garden. First-frost greens are the sweetest of all the greens picked that year. So good.

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I have a neighbor (another cat lover) up the road who has promised me a picking of collards from her garden. Lucky me.

[kittygrrl]

it's that time........

"me: I'm really going to eat healthier starting now ..

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Release the Reeses Peanut butter pumpkins"

:byebye:

[Soft*Silver]

My summer garden is almost done. I still have tomatoes on the vines. I had so much I couldn’t give away any more! Lol I’ve turned my chickens loose in my garden. Hopefully they’ll eat what is leftover. What they don’t eat, the wildlife this winter will. I’m slowly putting away my garden chairs and barbecue grill and Bird baths.

It’s time for me to start my fall garden. I’ve already planted lettuce and beets. Radishes too. My fall bulbs arrived today so hopefully next weekend I’ll be able to plant them. (Recovering from RSV this weekend) So many tulips and daffodils! I kind of went crazy!

It’s also apple picking time. Though my mobility is still somewhat limited, I am able to get up on a ladder and pick. I have so many recipes. I want to try recipes that I found on TikTok! (My Garden and chickens are on TikTok) I have two little granddaughters, who love to help me, bake and sample the goodies!

It’s also transition time clothing wise. I bought some new fall clothes that I am just dying to wear! Loose long blue Jean skirts w plaid flannel tops. Plaid wool long skirts with solid corduroy jackets. I love love, love, fall clothing! I even found fall-colored sweatpants!

I kept several of my pumpkins out of my garden, so that my granddaughters and I could carve. I bought special stencils that look just like cookie cutters! You arrange the ones you want for eyes and nose and mouth, and then pound them into the shell. The seeds are all going to the chickens or the garden!

Can I mention fall, scented candles? Oh, my God! I have them in my house and at my job. I love the fall scents!

One of my favorite smells is campfire. My husband built a small fire pit in the backyard. Next year it’s going to become a water garden so this fall is the last fall that we can enjoy it at that location. (I had gravel laid out behind my shed, against my woodland area, where the new fire pit is going to be built.) I’m so excited to start having fall fires this year with our family and friends.

And I love the leaves turning colors! Each year I take my granddaughters to our local national park and teach them about the trees. I now that they’re a little older I can teach them more than the difference between deciduous and evergreen, lol. I have all kinds of crafts to do with them With leaves! And people nearby, now save all their bag leaves for me! They even deliver them to my house. I keep them for a year or two in my back area. And then I fill my garden beds with them. Those people always come by in the summer and pick from my garden whatever they want. It’s a win-win situation for all of us!

I have to ready up my garage to be a winter home for feral cats. My city where I live is lower income. Many people don’t have the money to help animals, so I’ve been working with our local humane agent and our city’s police department on abandoned and abused in the collected animals. I want to set up my garage in the winter time for the feral cats to come in. We can trap them, neuter or spay them, and after they spend some time in recovery in my basement, that I will set up as a pet hospital recovery room, they could be released back into my garage. We don’t keep our cars in the garage. I had all my garden stuff stored in my garage, but since I bought my garden shed, the garage is just gonna sit there empty. So fall time is when I start creating my feral cat community!

[Stone-Butch]

As I sit at my computer leaving messages I see 7 trees in my direct line of vision.
I can see at least 5 different kinds of trees out my two windows and autumn is the time for them to fall but the beauty of those trees all turning different colors at different times is awe inspiring. Day to day and week to week I can see them change with the seasons and as they turn or fall the two huge evergreens stand their ground and give shelter to our many birds passing in the fall going south for the winter or squirrels when they venture out for food and need a quiet place to eat. Nature has so much beauty if we but pause and admire her gifts. ty Mother Earth for but one of your special gifts. I don't have to go to the park on cold blowy days I can just turn my head and admire the snow, the stillness, the bluejay and cardinal looking for the feeders that keep them going through storms along with the squirrels who must share now.

[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

I'm loving fall fruits. I came home with some beautiful apples and these grapes... oh my delicious goodness! (Moon drops)

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[Kätzchen]

Oh, we love NFL and watching the MLB playoffs.

And of course, my sweetie’s birthday in October.

And our anniversary.

And, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the season finale of Christmas and NYE.

:kissy: :hk20:

[kittygrrl]

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[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'm loving fall fruits. I came home with some beautiful apples and these grapes... oh my delicious goodness! (Moon drops)



All varieties of grapes have been exceptionally large, juicy and delicious this year. I have been enjoying them a lot.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

My favorite thing about fall is the color of the light in the evenings, soft and gray. Lights shine bright yellow from inside houses, making them warm and welcoming. There's a cool nip in the air foretelling the winter to come, and I always wish to step into the glowing homes, to take off my coat and sit on the couches to drink hot tea and visit with friends.

[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

Halloween Decorations

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[Bèsame*]

scary night coming up at the end of the month. ...with a cutie!

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[Bèsame*]

A play date this weekend🎃🎃🎃

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[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

Great find!

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[Soft*Silver]

I love this weather! I worked outside all weekend long in my gardens and chicken yard. I couldn’t get enough of the trees soft whispering w their drying colorful leaves. So cool to touch and pliable as I tucked bulb after bulb in. There is such a beautiful fragrance in the air. Not like in spring and summer on the flowers are blooming. There is an unmistakable Autumn smell to the Earth. I love to look at my garden as I lay it bare…. I think of all the wonderful summer we had while simultaneously, envisioning what next summer could look like! There are nuts, everywhere, thanks to the squirrels. I have several nut trees. While most of the nuts get hidden, some get scattered as they run with too full of a mouth.
My groundhogs are preparing to hibernate, and they are eating everything they can get their hands on, including the mums on my front porch! I love every color of mum and I have two of each color on the steps. I have way too many gourds and pumpkins, lining my porch and steps! It’s so much fun decorating with what I grew!

[Bèsame*]

Spying all the beautiful fall wreaths on my neighbor's doors.

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[Gemme]

I love being able to wear my hair down without getting hot and sweaty.

[Stone-Butch]

Autumn is just another beautiful part of our year. It brings many brilliant colors to say farewell to summer and hello to winter. I think autumn is necessary to transend from the hot summer to the cold times of winter to come. Animals are so busy with autumn, collecting food for winter, flying to another warm place out of the cool winds that let them know that snow is on its way. I see autumn as a necessary part of the year as I also see spring. Spring is opposite but it gives the leaves back to the sleeping trees and grows the fresh grass to sustain all life. I truly love the signs and stillness before the winter starts that autumn brings with it. We need the four seasons as we need four directions, for stages of all living things that go through life, morning, afternoon, evening and night. All these things have their order and their place and autumn to me fills its own space in the passage of time. I welcome it.

[Bèsame*]

I love being able to wear my hair down without getting hot and sweaty.

I 100% agree. Off with the hair clips and ponytail holders!
People are surprised how long my hair is.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Finally, the time has changed and it's dark in the evenings. Now it feels like autumn. I know it's only one hour, but it just feels different.

And people will start taking down their Hallowe'en decorations and putting up the Christmas ones soon. I can't wait! But for now, it's still and cool in the autumn evenings. People bundle up and walk their dogs under the streetlights. Leaves crunch underfoot everywhere. Warm yellow lights shine through the windows, welcoming the residents home.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

In autumn, I love that if I get too hot in my (upstairs) bedroom with the heat on, I can just open the door to the balcony and it will cool off pretty quickly. Also, no bugs!

[kittygrrl]

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[Bèsame*]

I just colored the lower part of my hair...autumn color, reddish brown. So striking with blonde highlights on top.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I just colored the lower part of my hair...autumn color, reddish brown. So striking with blonde highlights on top.

Sounds beautiful! And reddish brown is very "in" this season.

[Stone-Butch]

First time ever I acquired a wreath made of all color of autumn leaves. Never had one but will in the future. Its like nature right at your front door.

[Gemme]

I just colored the lower part of my hair...autumn color, reddish brown. So striking with blonde highlights on top.

I'm certain it is quite lovely.

Sounds beautiful! And reddish brown is very "in" this season.

Not reddish brown, but my stylist tells me that so many people up here are getting 'my hair' now, which makes me feel all the feels cuz she loves me and has a ton of clients with versions of red hair and it's mine that comes to mind for her. This is actually why I had her take me in a more red/orange vs red/purple route last year; I wanted to feel 'autumny' all the time.

[kittygrrl]

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cold crisp morning air

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I love walking in the twilight in autumn. It's cool enough to wear a sweater and it feels all cozy. The lights come on outside, and you can still see the multicolored leaves underfoot. Coming home, I think, "I've got to get my gutters cleaned out soon."

[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

autumn rain is special ..

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[kittygrrl]

autumn is rushing in..loving every moment

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[kittygrrl]

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[easygoingfemme]

For our New England folks: I went to this haunted house last night: https://www.dementedfx.com OMG is was soooo good. If you like that kind of thing :)

[kittygrrl]

warmed apple cider w cinnamon ..

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[Stone-Butch]

Autumn gives halt to summer scurry and allows you to gather your wits. It gives trees a chance to relax and go on holiday and refresh new when spring comes. Autumn gives many birds a chance to go on holiday too so they can relax, breed and bring their babies to their new home. Autumn and spring are my favorite times of the year but we also need summer and winter to complete the eternal cycle like being born, growing up, growing old and passing on. Autumn is a wonderful time of year to me.

[kittygrrl]

piles of autumn leaves, cocoa with squirt of cream, the din of coffee conversation in line, pumpkin themed coffee mugs i can't ever resist ..