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!

Things you Love about Autumn
 

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.

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.

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!

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

Love about Autumn
 

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.

I'm certain it is quite lovely.

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.