"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns... It is the second spring when every leaf is in flower."~George Eliot.
Fall is undoubtedly the favorite season in the Andrade household. When the leaves turn colors and the air turns crisp and chill caused great excitement in our household. On the very first day of fall we go out to buy small pumpkins to place them on the posts of our picket fence. This year, it was over a hundred degrees out when we did it; but we did set them out anyway, valiantly combatting the heat by our fall symbols.
Much to our delight, the heat did not persist long. The mornings have been chill and foggy and the breeze nippy. Our maples have begun to slowly turn from green to light yellow and orange. Our Fall Box has even made it's appearance, a true sign that the season for thanks has begun. What? You have not yet heard of our Fall Box? This must be remedied; allow me to enlighten you.
We are very serious about decorating for each season; eggs for spring and Easter, bright flowers for summer, pumpkins and garlands of leaves for fall, and a tree and ornaments for Christmas. Undoubtedly, our favorite seasons to decorate for are fall and winter. (We love the chilly months.) In our Fall Box are our thanksgiving themed napkins and plates, our wreaths and garlands (some are fake, some are very well-preserved), fall-ish paintings done by my sister and I when we were small, and our fall music. Our fall music is a big part of us getting ready for the season; most of it consists of Celtic music (such as the Chieftains and Irish guitar and the like) but certainly our most fall-ish CD would have to be "Little Women". That soundtrack sends shivers of pleasure up and down my sister and my spines. In the early morning when the cold fog is wrapped all about the house and there's a fire blazing and hot cider on the stove, nothing is better than listening to "Little Women" while wrapped up in a blanket and reading a good novel. Bliss.
Yes, October has come. Fall is on it's way if it isn't already here. What a lovely season.
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