Thread: Frost on the Pumpkin

I went out for coffee and found frost on my windshield this morning! I love Autumn and winter. Maybe because I was born in October or maybe because I grew up in New England where Autumn is the most beautiful season. In any case, I really get invigorated when it's time to break out the jeans and flannel shirts.

Anyone else? Any favorite foliage pictures?

Originally Posted by icedog

I went out for coffee and found frost on my windshield this morning! I love Autumn and winter. Maybe because I was born in October or maybe because I grew up in New England where Autumn is the most beautiful season. In any case, I really get invigorated when it's time to break out the jeans and flannel shirts.

Anyone else? Any favorite foliage pictures?

Not yet. Not down here. They won't be as good as Connecticut anyway.

Your post makes me nostalgic for my origins way north of here. I actually have grandparents buried in Newtown, at St. Rose.

j

Leaves are turning here in Colorado, but we don't have the maples, so we don't get the amazing reds and oranges. Aspens do a cool almost fluorescent yellow, though.

Also an October baby here....Libra?

Fall is my favorite season. No bugs, soups for dinner, wool shirts, no sweating when working outside, beautiful colors, good sleeping temps, yep, Fall is my favorite. Our first hard frost in central Minnesota was last night.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

Fall is my favorite season. No bugs, soups for dinner, wool shirts, no sweating when working outside, beautiful colors, good sleeping temps, yep, Fall is my favorite. Our first hard frost in central Minnesota was last night.

Chris L

Mmm, came late this year.

j (former Minnesotan)

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

Mmm, came late this year.

j (former Minnesotan)

Yep, but we're not complaining. Spring hung on forever and a day so Summer this year seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Hopefully we'll have an extended fall before our months of winter kick in. If I was in Duluth, I'd say "before our six months of winter kick in."

Chris L

Hell yeah! Fall is my favorite season as well! Halloween my favorite holiday. My birthday in November. I love the trees changing color. It would even be vibrant down in Philly where I grew up. I am into mountain biking now and can't wait to be riding through the woods with leaves falling everywhere in every color! Then again, it's hunting season... I better be careful!

Originally Posted by Chris L

Yep, but we're not complaining. Spring hung on forever and a day so Summer this year seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Hopefully we'll have an extended fall before our months of winter kick in. If I was in Duluth, I'd say "before our six months of winter kick in."

Chris L

Right-- to be followed, of course, by Road-building Season.

j

I love Fall. The colors are really nice, and they're just starting to turn here in Ohio. Alex, mountain biking in the Fall is really neat. The smell of the leaves is very intoxicating...might even make a good shaving soap....but the trails get a little hard to see because of all the leaves.

The title of this thread "Frost on the Pumpkin" is so appropriate. My dad says the same thing from time to time, especially this time of the year.

I'm a scorpio.

We just got five cords delivered today. Not a day too soon as it was 58 degrees in the house and 32 even outdoors. Put the first fire in the stove four hours ago and it's nice and toasty in here now. We heat only with wood from a single stove. I know many would hate it and at times so do I but this time of year, that smoke lingering out the door, the dog and cat lying together in front of the stove, the hot steel box drying out the mold from the long, humid summer as the yellow and orange leaves fall steadily from the huge sugar maples outside the windows is all good to me.