Welcome, my most favorite of seasons. I've been thinking about you a lot and am so very happy that you are here! I can't wait to share you and all of your fabulousness with my loves, big and small.
We will hike through the woods and watch as the leaves change, then fall and crunch underfoot, then begin to smell sweetly as they lay on the forest floor. We will camp together, the three of us, at least once this season.
We will smile at the big, blue sky and run around in fields with our sweaters zipped up to our chins and our scarves (well, I'll be wearing a scarf, anyway) flying in the autumn wind.
We will have fires, indoors and out. We will bake breads and muffins and cook big pots of soup that simmer all day long and nourish and warm our bodies and our souls. Mama's consumption of hot tea will increase dramatically and get back to where I like to think it should be.
We will visit farms and sink our teeth into juicy apples, Claire will very likely decorate her first pumpkin, and we will drink delicious fresh cider. Maybe even find some of those tasty cider doughnuts, if we're lucky.
We will gather beautiful fall flowers,
display them alongside acorn "hats" and pumpkins from our garden in our kitchen window,
and we will drink good coffee and eat fresh-off-the-tree apples with friends.
Ahhhhhhhh. Fall. I intend to drink you in deeply and let you sink into my bones so that memories of our good times help get me through the colder months ahead.
But for now, fall.
love these photos, especially the flowers on the window sill and coffee and apples...makes me wish fall was here already!
ReplyDeletethank you~
ReplyDeletewe were recently out with friends at this great little bar/restaurant a bit out of town (they like to consider themselves a "roadhouse") where they have live music outside and toys for the kids to play, surprisingly good food and very surprisingly great coffee..... after lunch and some beer it got chilly and we got coffee and Mike picked some apples from the tree off their deck. I looked down and saw them (the apples) with the coffee and thought it was just so beautiful.