Fall (as in Autumn, not I can't get up...)

Fall begins tomorrow - although to look out the window it has come in a day early. It's heavenly in Colorado in September and October. It's harvest season - and while our harvest this year is a bit light (tomatoes, grapes, hopefully beets and we think one carrot), at least we're eating some homegrown food. This fall I'm looking forward to a trip to Germany, cooking soups, chili and stews (the only real cooking I do, and only in fall/winter!), long hikes, beautiful cool days, a bear sighting (if the last 3 years are any indication), and hoping that NEXT fall we have a little one to take on hikes and dress as a pumpkin, princess or batman on Halloween.

So: Happy Autumn! Here's to OktoberFest,  winter squash, chard, fleece jackets, chili, early snowstorms, new boots, little ghouls and ghosts and falling leaves of all colors.