Today: The unofficial start of a new season.
The day after Labor day. We put our white shoes away, start thinking about our Halloween costumes and send the minor masses to school. It's not the official beginning of Fall, of course, but it's tradition. So here are a random smattering of things related to Fall.
Two Fall writing goals:
- Finish a first draft of The Royal Guard and/or Farmer's Daughter.
- Polish Will & Zoe and Clovis Tate within an inch of their lives.
Two festivals to look forward to:
The Puyallup Fair. Animals and produce and crafts and food and rides and music and crafts and so much fun.
Octoberfest in Leavenworth.
Yup, our very own little faux Bavarian town in Washington's Cascade mountains. Music and dancing and activities and, oh yeah, beer.
Two writers present Autumn:
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
Ode 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-eves run;
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.
Two songs to usher in the new season:
HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!
6 comments:
Looks like we're on the same wavelength today. Yay fall!
I love fall too. However, it's still a bit warm here in Chattanooga (95) to really feel like it's fall.
My Two for Tuesday:
Two favorite things about autumn
1. colored leaves
2. hot apple cider (add little brandy and it's even better).
Woo Kate! Fall FTW!
Those are two of my faves, too, Connie! Sounds like we need to plan a picnic. :)
Yesterday felt fallish, but not today. I do love fall as long as I ignore that winter comes right behind it!
We've had our fall all sprinkled in with our summer--skipped spring entirely. I crunched through some fallen alder leaves yesterday, and that definitely brought fall to mind. And the pears I harvested; there's a very autumn-ish pic of them on my blog.
I still feel like Summer never really *came*, but Fall is already making its mark. Happy Fall to you! :)
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