My favorite season is HERE! I love fall. It is so refreshing and beautiful.
I will admit, other then the temperatures, I am struggling to see the fall beauty in our little part of the world. Fall here looks just about how it does in spring and summer. It’s a shame sagebrush doesn’t change color because we sure have A LOT of that!
So despite being jealous of all of the changing color of the trees pictures I am still so excited for fall. I love the crisp days, pumpkins, and sweater weather.
We got back from our Idaho trip the day before the first day of fall. I usually try and make the changing of the seasons a special day {it’s pretty much a holiday around here!} and we just kind of dragged it out all week – NO COMPLAINTS!
We didn’t get OUT in nature as much as I would have liked, but we ate lots of food filled with fall flavors and did lots of snuggling. We spent a decent amount of time just trying to get back into our groove, plus sleep training Lydia a little. I am feeling massively sleep deprived at the moment.
So bring on fall and all of it’s goodness!
The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odours rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather,
And autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
‘T is a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.
September by Helen Hunt Jackson
