If spring is green-gold with emeralds, summer platinum and winter onyx set in silver then fall is a tarnished copper alloy chain that leaves a smudge on your neck. (But when you spotted it in the junkstore jewelry case, you had to have it.) It’s garnets, amber, carnelian and moss agate.
It’s semi-precious and affordable.
Fall is the people’s season. It’s the view that belongs to everyone. It’s socialized medicine and the pursuit of happiness. Fall has the sweet smell of a well-deserved earthly rest and the sound of desperate crickets in love (slow it down to hear the rhythm). Fall is damp socks and asthma and a really red dripping nose. It’s procrastination. A Fingersnap. A murder mystery. Black and brown dogs. A dream-date.
Fall is poetic license and a big cup of tea with honey.
What is it to you?
kristin green | trench manicure 
That was truly poetic! I was thinking of that golden glow of the woods in the fall just yesterday as I drove along a particularly golden road. The smell is it for me and it usually includes apple pie baking.
Thanks, Layanee! Definitely the smell of fall is like no other. I wish my nose wasn’t plugged… and that Z would bake a pie… -kris
fall is when frost kills the weeds I never got around to pulling and when jazz concert series pop up at universities. It is a time of strudel making and garlic planting. It is a time to breathe cool air. and apparently it is the season this guy stops blogging about his garden job ;’)
mmmm strudel! And it’s probably high time you take a break from the work-garden. Happy fall -kris