The Beauty of Autumn
by adustyframe ~ September 13th, 2007
I was looking on morguefile for a photo for this post and wow! Isn’t this beautiful?
How can anyone not LOVE Autumn? I was going to upload it full size, but it was too big! Please click on it and enjoy the beauty.
I think my love for Autumn perhaps began because I celebrate a birthday in this season.
Then God gave me some siblings and an uncle and Grandpa with their birthdays in Autumn.
Our first date was in the Autumn.
Then God sent me a precious little boy in the Autumn.
Autumn means celebrating all these special days. Autumn also means pumpkins, apples, beautiful colors, crisp air, lighting candles again, reading under a cozy blanket, falling into massive piles of leaves.
Autumn to me is simply the most delightful season God created.
I look at the beautiful oranges and reds against bright blue Autumn skies and I know that God is an artist. He painted Autumn with beautiful colors in brilliant shades.
Many years ago, I was in charge of transporting a guest speaker. I took him from our church to the college I had attended. They were from an area that did not get Autumn.
Poor souls!
The October day we spent driving in the beautiful Autumn countryside was an explosion of God’s finest colors.
The speaker curled up and fell asleep in my backseat. His wife exclaimed over the colors repeatedly.
She’d take deep breaths and say, “I can SMELL fall. Jonathon! Wake up! You are missing this.”
He’d open his eyes and say, “uh huh” and go back to sleep. She and I reveled in the beauty of God’s creation that afternoon.
I always think of her on a gorgeous Autumn day when I inhale the smell of fall.
James and I have plans to go to the pumpkin patch again this year. We haven’t gone since the fall right before Lee checked into jail. We all went together and tried to pretend that our life wasn’t about to fall apart.
We did some other fall things the last couple years.It felt easier to make a new tradition. One that didn’t remind us that Daddy was missing.
I think we I will be alright now. At least James will have a lot of fun.
Our Autumn plans include:
Walking in crunchy leaves
(my very favorite sound)
Going to the pumpkin patch
Making pumpkin recipes
Buying apple cider
Reading Ox Cart Man
Looking at Sept/Oct/Nov Martha Stewart & Mary Engelbreit Magazines
Reading Susan Branch’s Autumn cookbook
Knitting more pumpkins
Raking big leaf piles for James to jump in
Counting my blessings and thanking God for creating such a beautiful world
*Find other entries from the Carnival of Beauty here. There’s still time for you to write something and submit it to Ashley!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Is there a reason you call it Autumn and not fall? Where I live (Australia) we call it Autumn, and I thought we and England were the only places! Of course, I’m biased, but I think it sounds much prettier than fall.
Jenny, I just think Autumn sounds so much prettier than Fall.;)
September 14th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Fall is absolutely my favorite time of year too, and I too think it started because I have an October birthday.
In the eighth grade, we had to memorize “The Vagabond Song” by Bliss Carman. Even yet, I can’t feel the crisp autumn air and smell the scent of fallen leaves without reciting that poem.
Happy Fall!
(Is there a way to contact you privately? I wished to respond to a comment you left on my blog but could find no way to do so.)
We will have to look up that poem.
I will email you, but you can email me at adustyframe@yahoo.com
September 14th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Autumn is my favorite season too!
I know exactly what you mean about the smell in the air.
The yellow, rust orange and deep reds of changing leaves.
Cider mills with cinnamon donuts and fresh cider. Cider always tastes best just fresh! It’s just not the same from the gocery stores.
Autumn is finally upon us here in Michigan… this weekend the temps will be in the 60′s and we’re planning a trip to the local cider mill.
I hope my kids come to appreciate this season as much as I do.
MMM Jen! Your descriptions make me drool:)!!!
Cider and cinnamon donuts? yum
Actually our grocery store gets real cider in from an orchard. But we’ll probably buy some at the pumpkin farm this year. They have an orchard too.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I adore autumn- even if our colurs are not quite as beautiful as the ones you get.
Susanna’s autumn to do list : Give birth
oh…..and look forward to Christmas