~Stanley Horowitz
Fall is my very favorite time of the year. The season is filled with yummy fragrances, dancing colored leaves, gourds and pumpkins, and cooler weather. Autumn in an open invitation to be outdoors immersing the 'self' in the majestic beauty of Mother Earth.
Fruit choices shift from melons to apples and my baking focus is on anything pumpkin ... bars, muffins, pie, cookies ... while cinnamon and cider spices seem to be pumped into the air. The multiple colors in the falling leaves can never be exactly duplicated by a painters palette. Rich bold colors with varying hues all blend perfectly together and yet contrast as well.
It very may well heat up in the fall afternoon, but mornings and evenings are a walker's delight! The shifting breeze scoots the fallen leaves across the earth's floor and little animals can be heard scurrying along on all four. The birds take flight into the beautiful blue skies with style and grace.
Scarecrows, hay rack rides, apple dunking and fall festivals crowd most any weekend. There seems as though there are endless things to do, all requiring a person to be outside.
Yes, to be outside in the fall, I am called to be fully alive and joined with all of nature. It is as though every fall, I transition just a little further with the autumn I love so well.
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