What I Love about Fall, Ya'll

My in-laws have been here for a visit from Arkansas this past week. My friends said I started talking southern while they were here. Maybe so. After 10 years living in the Midwest, I am afraid I've lost my "ya'll". I haven't forgotten how to call the hogs though--too bad it wasn't enough to pull out a win on Saturday.


This is my 100th post!
One year ago I thought I'd try this new fangled thing called "blogging". It's been a creative outlet for me as well as proof positive that you can, indeed, teach an old dog a new trick. So for my 100th blog post, I wanted to share with you my favorite things of my favorite season of the year...Fall.

• Pumpkin Spiced Lattes from Starbucks

• Apple crisp, apples and caramel dip, apple cider, cream cheese stuffed apples, Fuji apple chicken salad at Panera Bread Company (it's actually offered year 'round--I was just on a roll with the apple thing)
  

• Mums- all colors. Decorated front porches. I'd like mine to look like this from the Pottery Barn catalog:
  

• Trees changing colors and falling leaves

• Fire pits and fireplaces

• Football games

• Yankee candle in Spiced Pumpkin (my standard fall fragrance; the new fall scents were great too)
  

• Candy corn and dry roasted peanuts

• Warm days and crisp nights

• Molasses cookies with Pumpkin dip

• Fall fabrics and colors

• Soup and chili recipes

• Start up of Women's Bible studies-- I'm doing these two:

We all have a time of year that we enjoy the most but I hope you can find wonder and beauty and joy in whatever season you are in.

So what do you love about this time of year?
Gina