If I were to have to choose my favorite time of the year, I would have to say it is FALL!!!
Sleeping with the bedroom windows open to enjoy the freshness of outside air versus the flow of the airconditioner ...
Being able to breathe when you go from the indoors to the outdoors ...
Watching the shadows as they lengthen almost daily across the vastness of our yard ...
Checking each morning to see just how cool it did get overnight and into the early dawn ...
Seeing the gradual changes in the colors of the leaves on our many Pennsylvania Maples ...
Keeping an eye out for the school buses when I'm driving the county roads ...
Waiting for that first good frost so that I know Fall is finally officially here.
Having had a sun stroke in my early twenties at a swim party, I know the symptoms of impending heat exhaustion and just plain don't wander out into the world when the heat and humidty dictate problems. It's another case of BTDT, and don't want to do it again.
Winter months bring the icy conditions that I must avoid completely less I slip and fall. This could be disasterous in my case right now, but has always been an issue when I ventured out even as a child.
Spring is lovely when you can watch the bleak landscape start to brighten up and the weather is more bearable (albeit unpredictable). I watch for the first daffodil to sprout out of the ground. I look for the buds on the trees that turn them this kind of fuzzy mauve just prior to breaking out into the beautiful greens.
But FALL, ah Fall ... I decorate for Halloween. My front porch is ablaze with autumn leaves and scarecrows and colored lights on my small grapevine tree. This is probably the only time during the year that I go all out. The autumn colors are my favorite.
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