Fall in Full Swing

As Autumn progresses, the leaves transition from green to yellow, orange, and brown, gracefully falling to the ground. The temperature cools, the days grow shorter, and the nights become longer. These are indicators of the constant changes in our environment. However, nature isn't the only thing that transforms in the fall. People and animals do as well. The kids become wiser as they embrace their second month of school. Everyone exchanges shorts and t-shirts for sweatpants, jeans, pants, sweaters, sweatshirts, coats, and shirts with long sleeves. Most of us begin to have lower energy levels, and are indoors more often, due to less sunlight and colder weather. Some of us also change from their regular Starbucks coffee beverage to lattes with pumpkin spice which are oh, so nice. Animals do as people do, as they prepare for hibernation by gathering food, and attempting to stay warm by finding heat and shelter. The only thing that do not change are the holidays during this season.

With Halloween right around the corner, people are buying spooky costumes and candy, carving pumpkins, and putting up the scariest of decorations on their front lawns. Walking around the neighborhood, I have seen the spookiest and kookiest decorations on the front lawns of our community. I've seen an entire graveyard, complete with gravestones, scary signs, skeletons, and a gravedigger. Colorful lights of orange and purple glow through night, with crime scene tape, skulls, skeletons, spiders, tinsel, spider webs, witches, ghosts, black cats, ghouls, jack 'o' lanterns, giving such a frightful sight. These skeletons not only sit in chairs and stand at attention but some have bony hands sticking out from the ground, and others are trying to get out from their graves with their bodies halfway breaching. The animals also get ready with the hoots and screeches of the owls and the howls of the wolves as a full moon sits overhead. I, for one, am excited for Halloween, Even though I am too old for trick or treating, I still love seeing the amazing costumes that come to my door and giving the neighbor kids candy for the awesome outfits. I also dress up my dog in a costume to get into the spirit (last year she was pumpkin and she was so cute). To end this post, I will say Happy Halloween to everyone and to enjoy these fall days.

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