Maybe I am biased because of the birthday season....?? I don't think so though.You've got the bright changing colors, harvest time, pumpking patches, apple picking, BYU football, Halloween, delicious food (see Erin's blog), hoodie weather, school supplies, Thanksgiving, did I mention birthdays?, and just that comfy stay home feeling.
I love it and had to just send a quick 'shout out' for my favorite season which officially began on Monday (and so did this post until it was interrupted :)
This is a poem that I love to read in Susan Branch's Autumn Book:
Vagabond Song
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood ---
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and crimson keeping time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
---- Bliss Carman
SOME IDEAS FOR YOUR HOME (from Susan Branch--many adopted by mother)
- Lamps are cozier and make much prettier light than celing lights.
- Gather/Display games and puzzles for cozy nights at home.
- Brew mulling spices, particularly when friends come over.
- Display old favorite books (Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Wuthering Heights....)
- An old clock that ticks sounds wonderful on quiet nights.
- Quilts make great tablecloths.
- Candles, Candles, Candles surrounded by autumn windfall and a fire in the fireplace.
Some MUST ENJOY Autumn Time Favorites (Please feel free to add some in comments!):
Multimedia: Meet Me In St. Louis, To Kill A Mockingbird (book and movie), Rebecca, The Birds, Woman in White, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Great Pumpkin, The Ghost of Mrs. Muir, Disney's Halloween Treat, Ichabod's Sleepy Hollow....
Food: Doughnuts, chili, cinnamon rolls, apple pie, fritters, nachos, chili dogs, pumpkin chocolate chip bread, cookies, and cider...(again, see Erin's blog)
HAPPY AUTUMN TIME!
