“Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.  ~ Kent Nerburn

I like living in a place where I can fully experience the change of the seasons. I get the opportunity to see our natural environment from different perspectives. In winter, mother nature dons her white winter coat, in summer she shows off her brightest attire, camouflage coveralls of earthy colors are strewn all over the ground in late autumn and in springtime a fresh new green wardrobe dresses the soil. Each season has a different set of inherent wonders that appear year after year. It never ceases to amaze me how the earth knows when to bow its head and slumber, and when it is time to wake up and come alive. In is all in the grand and splendid design of God’s created Universe. 

It is autumn and I look forward, with great anticipation, to fulfilling my seasonal cravings for:

• Sitting at the fireside with a good book
• The taste of homemade pumpkin pie with a large dollop of whipped cream
• The aroma of cinnamon and spice candles
• Hearing the crunch of the fallen, dried leaves under my feet
• Knitting a warm winter wrap.
• Mugs of hot mulled cider and hot cocoa
• Seeing still life and landscape paintings representative of the season
• Sitting on the deck wrapped in a cozy blanket, with cuppa hot tea in hand, deeply breathing in the smells of the rotting leaves.
• A big turkey dinner with all the fixings with family or friends
• Soaking in the tub with warm vanilla scented bubble bath
• Creating a seasonal table top arrangement of gourds, pumpkins and Indian corn.
• The warm, yeasty flavors of a hearty fresh baked bread 

Soon our outdoors time will be reduced by the very nature of the season – bitterly cold days, icy roads, impassable highways and byways.  Before this fall season passes us by, find fulfillment in the season. Get outdoors in the brisk air – paint one last landscape in plein air, ride your bike, take a fall hike, seek out a fall harvest festival. Have fun! The earth was put here for us to enjoy!

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