Soaking up the first day of FALL...
Enjoying my first cup of cocoa this morning with my "fluffed up" feline on the patio, as the golden morning rays warmed up still chilly "smells-like-woodsmoke" air. Dropped to 55 last night and several of the nearby trees are beginning to turn.
For me, Fall is as good as it can possibly get. I love the sweater weather...the bonfires...the cocoa...caramel apples and pumpkins...orchards and cider...the smell of the fallen leaves...the whole deal. Looking forward to the first pot of "Grandpa's Chili" and already have a pot of soup beans bubbling with a bit of onion and real butter and an iron skillet of cornbread baking. The sweet tea is in the fridge getting cold. And there is jam to smear on the cornbread for afters.
Arranged a basket of silks in harvest colours for the table and the seasonal decorating (inside and out). By the middle of October my patio will resemble a wander through Brown County with baskets and sunflowers...Bittersweet hanging, tied in bunches with raffia or woven into dried grapevine wreaths.
The yellows of September slowly taking on the bright orange and crimsons of October.
Saving some of the bright orange Bittersweet seeds to see if I can get my own vines started next season. Also looking at bulbs to tuck in later :)
Spent an altogether wonderful afternoon "playing in the dirt" tidying the garden-spot and flowerbeds once more for the Mums arrival next week. Also looking at one of the free-standing bronze-coloured bowl fire-pits. Spent last Fall without a bonfire...not this year!
Ended up taking sitting outside and having an al fresco dinner which felt just like the "cornbread and beans" suppers at Mansfield without the crowds.
All in all...a perfect Fall Day!
