BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Inspiration What are your favorite autumn activities??

Hi Melylou! Aw, doesn't London get any autumn weather, or do ya just go straight to rainy?

We have an apple orchard nearby that is so fun to go to... they also have berries! Lots and LOTS of berries!

Hello Deanna, yes we do have some autumn weather... when it's not raining :-) the trees are beautiful, but no creeks in the city, no bbq, no mountain roads or any orchards...
How nice to have an apple orchard with berries. Down the street from where I grew up we had this little family who lived on "Berry Patch Farms"... this time of year they would have pumpkins and hay rides... I am afraid they went out of business a few years back :-(

It's not really an activity as such, but my miniature dark red Japanese acer in my back garden is so beautiful at this time of the year that I enjoy it every day when I look out the kitchen window!

I love all doing all the things that you have all mentioned. But, one of my all-time favorite things to do in the fall is to make, and eat, soup. My whole family loves soup -- it is comfort food at its best. Over the years, I've been perfecting recipes, and everyone in my family has their favorites. Chicken and corn chowder, mulligatawny, pasta fagioli... we love them all. We'll pack soup up in a thermos and go to the beach and have a soup picnic while we fly kites. It's the best!

Visiting the mountain valleys full of orange Aspen trees, standing in the middle of them and gazing with awe as they turn super golden with the setting sun behind them, tromping through the leaves on the ground and going home to a cozy fire with my man.
:-)

I like to go to the Fall Festivals that are held at the local churches. Also, art galleries change their displays as well as museums. And I go to the library and look up autumn subjects.
And of course, I like to sit outside at Starbucks with a steamy pumpkin latte.

Are those good? It sounds kind of rich. Is it just the spices from pumpkin pie?

I hear you. Where I live is beautiful when it is NOT raining.

BTW- Melylou, the picture you use for the forum logo is very interesting. (if I were a school girl, I would say it's COOL!)

Melylou, we love hay rides too... and going to the pumpkin patch!

Gillian, your Japanese Acer sounds beautiful! I have to admit, the turning colors of the trees is one of the biggest thrills of this time of year! I LOVE the rich colors!

Tricia, we LOVE mulligatawny too! Yumm!! A soup picnic sounds like fun!

Joan, we love the aspen trees too... there's a local grove that we try to visit every year - in fact, we just went the first of September. The leaves were just turning yellow!

The best part of autumn for me is going outside and taking in the gorgeous tree colors. Smelling autumn in the air, the smell of leaves and chilly weather. Hearing the crunch of leaves under my feet. Seeing all the squirrels (I call them all Nutter Butters ) collecting their winter dinner ingredients.

Autumn and winter aren't always warm, as we know, and this is why many people complain about them. But autumn is the only season that you can see so many colors at once in many given natural areas, and winter is so simple. Especially when everything is covered in snow, it is so simple to me and gives me the impression that all is right with the world.

Seasons are beautiful.