Comments on: Fall In Bloom

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:45:01 +0000

I knew you were in Texas Dorraine, but didn’t realize you were in south Texas. Yeah, we got one day when we didn’t have the air con on. I opened the windows and it was glorious! Too bad it didn’t last. My son is in Austin and he was saying they’ve had temps in the 70s this last week or so. He was tickled that it reminded him of the summer weather in Scotland. we are to get a cold front next weekend, Yahoo!!!!

Talking of Scotland my sister said the weather there is like winter already. Gales and heavy persistent rain. October is usually like your photo up there, cool and colorful. Maybe there’s something to this global warming after all.

Elizabeth

By: Dorraine

Dorraine — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:58:34 +0000

Many thanks, E. Yes, I too am in south Texas, but we did have a few cool days a couple of weeks ago. Did you get any of that? This is a dreamy post, remembering my mid-western falls, but ours is coming soon. Hang on!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:24:03 +0000

What a beautiful picture and post Dorraine. We here in South Texas are still battling 99 degree heat in the late afternoons! I would love to see the autumn. Thanks for sharing yours.

Elizabeth

By: dorraine

dorraine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:09:51 +0000

Thanks, Paige. Loved your words too-the crisp evenings rolled into each other and mornings of bright skies and eyes. Beautiful.

Deer season. I remember that from my Missouri days. My dad and brother would hunt. I never liked the whole sha-bang, but it was nice for my mom to have a break. We lived out in the country there for three years when the girls were little, and I’d always dress them in orange during deer season, when I let them in the woods. I was always a little leery about them playing outside that time of year.
Don’t have to worry about that here, thankfully. Of course they are too big to play in the woods now. It’s movies and shopping now.

By: Paige

Paige — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:18:53 +0000

Beautiful post…fall here used to mark the beginning of deer season not that I’m crazy about that but at one time it brought an empty house and I became filled with peace, quite and then Monday would come and bring with it the smelly bags and muddy attitudes.

And now…fall marks the beginning of a new year of honeymooning, crisp evenings rolled into each other and mornings of bright skies and eyes.

By: dorraine

dorraine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:39:51 +0000

Thank you, Deanna. And, yes, those pesky hormones and their cold weather preference. I can relate. I’m thinking Alaska might be suitable for me.

I love the fact that you used hay rides to give back and make others happy. What a sweet thing to do. I’ll bet you added so much light to those people on the other end of your apples. What fond memories those must be.:)

By: Deanna Schrayer

Deanna Schrayer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:47:19 +0000

This is so beautiful Dorraine. “Leaves turned cinnamon and amber, quivering and curling on limbs like tiny, arthritic hands.” Lovely, lovely description.
This piece brought about so many fun memories for me. Summer used to be my favorite season, but the older I get the more I like fall instead, (hormones creating hot flashes make summer unbearable). As a teenager, one of my favorite things about fall was the hay rides our church youth group took. We’d pile up on the hay, squeezing tight together, there were so many of us, wrap up in blankets, and bump down the road to visit shut-ins. We’d sing to them and give them baskets of apples. I will never forget the look of happy content on their faces.
Thank you for sparking these cherished memories.