Fall Colors

Fall has always been my second favorite season. I’ve always seen it as just a prelude to Winter, which is my season. But I’ve actually been quite enjoying Fall this year. It’s my second year here in the mountains again, just me and the kids. Last year we had just barely moved in and I don’t think we really had a chance to enjoy the Fall weather before Winter hit. But it’s just beautiful here right now. Although the majority of the trees are the evergreens, there are quite a few trees right now turning the most amazing colors of gold, red, yellow and orange.

In fact last weekend the kids and I took some Fall pictures with my digital camera (that I never use). We took pictures in town and around my parents’ house, that I do hope to eventually actually get around to posting one of these days! We also made Fall collages. We each took a small brown paper bag and went for a walk around our street as we picked up pretty leaves, twigs, pine needles, flowers…When we got back home it was interesting to see what each of us had in our bags and how we had collected some things similar and some different. Then I got out construction paper, pens, crayons, colored pencils and glue and we started to create! What fun! And the kids really got into it. I hung up our three collages on the pantry doors after they dried. Wesley made little people out of his collected leaves and fall foliage. He even glued on little eyes from my sewing supplies and a fuzz ball red nose. And Laken used up all of the glue in the glue bottle on her second picture making what she told me was “a lake”. Yea, it was a Glue Lake!

November came in with two days of rain and nice cool temperatures and I was getting excited feeling Winter on its way. My dreams began to fill with snow! We were building fires every night and crawling under our toasty electric blankets with our home made, knitted slippers on. Then the last two days it has not only cleared up, but warmed up. It’s almost 80 degrees out today! The Farmer’s Almanac actually said that this Winter is going to be 6 degrees colder than last winter. We did have a fairly last Winter last year though, but I didn’t think it was too bad. Now I grew up here in the mountains, but this was my first Winter living up here again in about 17 years. And I did just fine! Now that I think of it, it was a late Winter last year, because the kids were hunting Easter eggs at my parents’ house in the snow. Sweet!

So I do plan on enjoying the remainder of our wonderful Fall here in the mountains as I continue to look forward to a chilly Winter!!