It is hot here today, but I am not complaining. Okay, maybe a little, but the air conditioning is working, and it is cool (literally and figuratively). Still, I can tell Fall is coming, and I am looking forward to the change of seasons! I love the colors of autumn, the scents, the crispness in the air, the foods…

Thanks to Harold Wainwright on Unsplash for letting us use this image (above) and Marius Ciocirlan (also on Unsplash) for the preview image.

And, to round out this post, still savoring this quote from a writer whose work I have just discovered.

Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

Shauna Niequist, from Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way