Friday October 7, 2011
Gorgeous posts and pictures about autumn are popping up everywhere.
My sentiments about the season usually run more like this as I yank out over the hill flowers along the front walk:
“A thousand lavender tear drops surrounding freshly dug graves.”
Fall just feels like death to me.
So this month I am going to try, really try, to find nice things about fall. Or at least something less morbid. Because if fall is here, that means January and the “s” word cannot be far behind. I think that will be easier now that the antibiotics are kicking at the pneumonia and replacing the coughing with energy.
Maybe. Someone please pass me some extra Vitamin D.
If you actually want to be inspired about fall, go here.
Bake something yummy-fallish…..sit in the sun and read a good book, oh, and don;t forget the Lipton tea.;) I’m lovin’ this, BUT we are having 80 degrees right now, too.
wait…do you have pneumonia or someone in your house? omw!!! i’m so sorry if that is the case!
on my calendar, January doesn’t come until after November and December….so, i’m hoping that yours is the same, and that you CAN find some goodness in the delight that is autumn.
hang in there!
oh no about the pneumonia! how does that work for a mom with Three busy boys? hope that you are feeling way better.
i just told that gal 🙂 that you linked to that i like fall. the pretty weather and all…
and then somehow it ended up being about my new boots, and scarves and layering.
snicker. but by dec 26th i am done being cold.
have a great weekend!
I used to agree with you 100%. I don’t know what happened…maybe it’s because I’ve been married now for 11 years to a man who gets downright giddy when the leaves start to turn because he just LOVES autumn…maybe it’s because I started collecting autumn decor, and my husband’s pure delight when he comes home & finds that I’ve unpacked & displayed it all…maybe it’s because this summer was the hottest one (officially!) in my lifetime and because I just WILT in the heat…maybe it’s because autumn now signals the approaching end of the mowing season that leaves me feeling like a widow/single mom for 75% of the summer…..whatever it is, it’s changing me. Because I am enjoying fall this year like I never have in all of my life. Every day on my 21-mile trip to school through some of the prettiest rural areas of northwestern PA, I am a hazard because I am leaf-gawking rather than keeping my eyes on the road! Just soaking it all in! Especially with this week’s sunshine. Somehow the long-suppressed optimist within me is believing that there’s a chance this will all last for 3 months rather than a single brief one.
haha!! i clicked on the link to be inspired and… 😉 too funny!!
i totally agree w/ you though on fall.
i always warm up to it after a bit..
i mean, how can i not like caramel apples and cute boots. 🙂
but the sense that everything is dying, YES!
shayne and i were just talking of this the other day~
how it seems a “depressing” time of year.
i seriously have to watch my attitude w/ it all,
because WEATHER so effects my mood. and i know, i know..
there’s always something to give thanks about. 😉
perfect weather or not. but i’m MORE thankful when i’m warm!! 😉
i’ve been thinking the past couple of days about change though~
how i pretty much hate it. bulk at it. but.. realize it’s a necessary part of life.
if it were always summer, then would i love it so?? right??
even though i’m sure at times God must have totally gotten the continent wrong i was born on..
or atleast LOCATION. {that paper the stork was carrying said SOUTH} i’m sure it did. 😉
but.. i find myself getting ready to hunker down for winter~ try to learn to embrace ALL seasons {real and figurative}
and hold onto the HOPE that the warmth and fun of summer days will come again!! 🙂
in the meantime.. when you’re done w/ that vitamin D, pass it on to me!
Here’s someone else who’s solar-powered and always thinks that fall is a kind of death. The colors help redeem it–as well as the scarves. =)
i.agree.
Aw. Your ‘thousand lavender teardrops’ are so poetic and sad.
I shouldn’t even comment here. Because I dread winter with a passion. But it’s better this year. And I hate to admit that it’s probably the anti-depressant I finally went back on after going off of it 6 years ago in Belize because that warm/hot sun shone there–almost every blessed day. But I’m feeling more alive this fall and seeing its beauty, for which I am grateful.
May the pneumonia be gone soon. May your Virginia winter be brief. May the lavender tears experience resurrection earlier than ever.
I don’t usually mind fall, but this year I just want warmth and summer a little longer!
hey, girl…. hang in there! 🙂 love ya
Is the thousand lavendar tear drops around freshly dug graves original? I’m mightily impressed if it is! =) I wish I’d be a mom that would function past the basic functions.
I love Autumn, but do really dread the death of winter that follows. I somehow usually manage to ignore the fact that winter is coming that way I can enjoy the Autumn moment.
Ok, so call me Pollyanna, but I love fall! My sister used to get so annoyed with me when we’d go for walks because I was always getting distracted, stopping to wiggle my nose after some euphoric crisp smell or being enraptured by the razor clarity of yellow leaves cutting into the BLUE BLUE sky. 🙂 My mom could sympathize with you more, I think. Wistful sighs: “All the leaves are dying…” But look at it as everything getting undressed for a winter nap in preparation for the burst of life that is Spring! Here’s wishing you sunshine and steaming cups and the perfect scarf and bushels of smiles! Pneumonia be GONE!
Well, I totally get where you are coming from on this. Fall used to be my favorite season but anymore as I have started to hate winter more and more…the impending doom of winter almost makes me not even be able to enjoy fall. Sad, I know.
just stopping in here to say, love ya.
and so glad God crossed our paths. 🙂
happy tuesday dear.
@grace_to_be – You are too kind! Thanks for stopping by …. too bad it didn’t mean a cup of coffee together ~