Hello everyone!

I hope that you are doing well.  It is our favorite time of year.  Fall has arrived.  

I love the beauty of fall ... the smell of fall ... the colors of fall ... the temperatures of fall.

The trees are nice and full and their leaves are beginning to change colors.

The sounds of the twigs and leaves crunching on the ground as you walk.  

The sun shining through the branches of the trees with their rays softly touching the branches and reaching to the ground.

And the smell of fall ... you know it ... you have smelled it.  The leaves drying as the temperatures change.  The smell of dirt.  Good fresh dirt ... plucked right from the ground in your hand ... I love that smell.  Fall smells like dirt to me.  A fresh plowed farm field ... the dirt dropping through my fingers ... raising it to my face to smell as it crumbles back to the ground.  That is what fall smells like to me.

Oh the colors!  The trees ... the leaves ... the branches ... the surrounding plants and bushes ... all changing to their fall colors.  So much beauty ... various shades of greens ... yellow ... orange ... brown ... red ... the way they all blend together to create a magical scene.

The perfect temperatures of fall.  Whether it's short sleeves ... long sleeves ... jackets ... or even coats and gloves.  This is the time of year that you never know what the temps of the next day are going to feel like.  You are just prepared.  I like to dress in layers when I go out in the fall.  When you have layers you can take them off as the day begins to warm and you feel the sun shining on your shoulders.  Then you can add the layers back as you need them as the sun sets and the warmth of the day begins to fade.

Fall.  The perfect time of the year. 

Here's a video of one of our walks during our color drive.  

Enjoy!

** Always remember that you are awesome.  You are wonderfully made.  If you find yourself struggling, and we all do from time to time, never give up.  We can do hard things when we have and make it through to the other side.  You've got this.