The signs of fall are evident – the first blush of autumn colors are appearing on the trees. Pumpkins are all around. The weather shift to cooler days and evenings. The smell of wood burning from the backyard firepit covers the neighborhood.
It’s time to stir up a pot of homemade chili, bake an apple cake or pie, and sit down with a cup of “pumpkin spice” tea or the first ‘Hot-tody’ of the season. Time to retreat to the kitchen and be creative with pumpkin baked into muffins, breads, pies, or cakes.
A long fall walk in the early evening as the sun sets to enjoy the turning leaves and this year enjoy the early Full Moon.
Enjoy this reminder of Fall by poet Robert Frost:
“October” by Robert Frost (from A Boy’s Will, 1913)
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow,
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.
For many, Fall is that perfect season … enjoy.
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