Loving Fall

 I absolutely love when fall finally comes to our part of the country, southeast Missouri which usually does not happen until October.  It is especially wonderful when it comes with a rain storm, wind and sudden chill to the air!

I can remember walking around my college campus in the drizzling rain, up and down the hills to class, wearing an all weather jacket, getting totally wet. When I finally got home mom had on a pot of homemade vegetable stew and had made biscuits!

Now I can only look out my office window and wish I was walking around the campus when fall comes.  Tied to my desk, I am counting down the days to retirement this December. Then I will be able to enjoy the season changes and walk whenever and wherever I want!

I can hardly wait to find a path such as this in the many parks we have in our town.  The smell of the wet decaying leaves draws you further down the path into the wood. What would make it even better would be a dreary cloudy day and drips of rain coming down.  

Then I could go home and put on a pot of soup and make some biscuits, warm up some tea and write or read a book.  

Ahh, fall, the most wonderful time of the year!