The Sweet Sights and Sounds of Fall

I love Fall.............. there I said it. Its just sounds so cliche right?

Not at all, I read an article once about how powerful the senses are and just a smell or taste or sound can take you back to a distinct moment or memory in your life, like it happened yesterday! That's what fall is to me!

When I go outside and I see all of the leaves lying on the ground and the wondrous colors of the different leaves and trees, I think about the mornings I would walk to school thinking I was never going to make it through the cold. Well fifteen or sixteen years later, here I am just lavishing in the sights that take me back to that time!

I must admit what is a little weird for me is that it rains in the fall and winter, but, in South Africa where I grew up the only time it rained was maybe a little in the Spring time and most of the Summer afternoons were blessed with dark sky's and wonderfully playful lightning storms! So the wet seasons are a little topsy-turvy for me but I love them either way.

I have come to love the tradition of celebrating Hair Raising Halloween (which my family gets into pretty seriously) and then a month later Thoughtful Thanksgiving (which my family also gets into pretty seriously) and then a month later the wonder of Charming Christmas (which is bigger for the kids than the grown ups in my house). Memories and relationships are built on traditions and sometimes held together by those very same traditions so easily mocked by others.

Fall means all of that to me, time well spent with my family putting up decorations, planning meals to satisfy everyones taste buds, posing for pictures to laugh at later and the general warmth of the laughter, joy and love that Fall brings to ease the little chill outside!

So all I have to say is Welcome Fall its good to see you again!

Keep warm
Jacki