For the Love of Autumn

[Left Coast]

It's nearly Fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot wait!

It has felt like a very long Summer to me, and I am so looking forward to the weather cooling down, leaves changing, rain...and getting to wear sweaters!

What are you looking forward to this Fall? What do you enjoy most about the season? Any holidays (religious or otherwise) or traditions you have for this time of year?

Share your love of Autumn with the rest of us.

 

[Spirit of Light]

It's nearly Fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot wait!

It has felt like a very long Summer to me, and I am so looking forward to the weather cooling down, leaves changing, rain...and getting to wear sweaters!

What are you looking forward to this Fall? What do you enjoy most about the season? Any holidays (religious or otherwise) or traditions you have for this time of year?

Share your love of Autumn with the rest of us.

I have to say I have a love for all the different seasons, but autumn has very beautiful colors where I live. And it is a clear sign that winter is near when the cold weather can be felt in the morning

 

[John53]

It's nearly Fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot wait!

It has felt like a very long Summer to me, and I am so looking forward to the weather cooling down, leaves changing, rain...and getting to wear sweaters!

What are you looking forward to this Fall? What do you enjoy most about the season? Any holidays (religious or otherwise) or traditions you have for this time of year?

Share your love of Autumn with the rest of us.

It's spring here, I like warm days and cool nights so autumn and spring are my favourite seasons. Spring probably wins but it's close.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

I am basic ***** so pumpkin and cinnamon scented things, bright colors that trend towards black the closer to Halloween we get are all my jam. <3

 

[Left Coast]

It's spring here, I like warm days and cool nights so autumn and spring are my favourite seasons. Spring probably wins but it's close.

Where do you live, John?

 

[Left Coast]

I am basic ***** so pumpkin and cinnamon scented things, bright colors that trend towards black the closer to Halloween we get are all my jam. <3

I do love pumpkin and cinnamon flavored baked goods.

 

[John53]

Where do you live, John?

Port Stephens, Australia

 

[England my lionheart]

I love autumn,the colours of the trees as they prepare to shed they’re leaves and new bird visitors to the garden,normally this is a signal to pack up and fly to New Zealand for their spring and summer,the thought of bare trees and the bleakness of January February do not thrill me but take comfort in that seasons change.

 

[The Hammer]

It's nearly Fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot wait!

It has felt like a very long Summer to me, and I am so looking forward to the weather cooling down, leaves changing, rain...and getting to wear sweaters!

What are you looking forward to this Fall? What do you enjoy most about the season? Any holidays (religious or otherwise) or traditions you have for this time of year?

Share your love of Autumn with the rest of us.

It's rolling into fall here! The nights are finally cooling down. The sun is setting earlier, and best of all the rain has returned!

I love the smell of a damp forest. And seeing moss covered rocks. Muted fall colors and the return of pie season.

The holidays I have coming up are Fall-fest in September (aka Mabon), and Winternights on Nov 1st (aka Samhain).

 

[ChristineM]

The change in the forest, from various shades of green to various shades of yellow, brown, red. I love autumn colours so much most of my clothing is in those shades.

Harvesting fruit, we don't have much but what we have is a delight and neighbours will drop off maybe a bucket of figs or fresh greens or squash. Time for making jam and blanching veg to freeze.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

It's nearly Fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I cannot wait!

It has felt like a very long Summer to me, and I am so looking forward to the weather cooling down, leaves changing, rain...and getting to wear sweaters!

What are you looking forward to this Fall? What do you enjoy most about the season? Any holidays (religious or otherwise) or traditions you have for this time of year?

Share your love of Autumn with the rest of us.

I was something of a nerd, so I always loved getting back to school.

But even more importantly, from grade 8 onward, I went to a boy's private boarding school (quite small, 155 students from grades 7 -13, so like 20 students per grade). But at least I didn't have to live with foster families, which I always detested. I stayed at school over the long weekends, and over Christmas and Easter holidays. People were afraid I'd be lonely, but NOT SO. I was very, very happy to be there.

And before that, I was in a home for emotionally disturbed children in Ottawa, and we couldn't really be trusted at summer camp. However, after the camping season was over, the Children's Aid took us to a wilderness camp for a week. These were happy, happy times for me. (While I had a voice, I could perfectly imitate the call of the loon on a cool fall night. The sound still haunts me to this day).

Fall, my favourite season. I could have it all year round.

 

[anna.]

My favorite time of year. : )

Where I live in Southern California, sometimes we have to wait longer for truly fall weather, since the possibility of a random 100° day here is open until early November. But right now it's a pleasant and sunny 76° and I'll take it. We don't get a lot of fall color, unfortunately. Not enough of the right kind of trees.

I love cinnamon and pumpkin bread too - and the return to hearty, wintery meals like chicken pot pie and roasted veggies and soup. And I totally love it when the time changes back!

 

[Meow Mix]

To Autumn, John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-evesrun;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

 

[danieldemol]

Port Stephens, Australia

Lucky you

 

[Left Coast]

To Autumn, John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-evesrun;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!