I absolutely LOVE living in New England. I don't care for the harshness of the winters here, or the blazing heat and humidity of summer... but Autumn is that wonderful in-between time that makes it all worthwhile. We don't really have Spring here, we just have "mud season." New England is in its glory in the Fall, though.
When I was younger, this was my favorite season because it was a time for gathering with family that I didn't see often at other times of the year. Over the years, it has become so much more than that. I love the crispness to the air... the scent of woodsmoke wafting on the breeze... the crunch of the leaves beneath my feet... the brilliant splashes of color against the backdrop of Mt. Washington and a clear blue sky. I even enjoy the aroma of the slowly decomposing vegetation. There's just something about this time of year that inspires me.
What's your favorite thing about Fall? Perhaps these quotes will get you thinking. They speak my heart much more eloquently than I...
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps
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. ~George Eliot
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~Emily Dickinson
October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~Nova Bair