Fall is on the horizon

As I was driving to work this morning a brisk wind kicked around some leaves on the street. Dry dead leaves. I tilted my head back and took a deep breath, not quite the start of Fall but its getting close. Fall is my favorite season here in California. The days alternate between cool and warm, trees stop dropping leaves and if you stop to listen you can hear the wind and leaves work together in concert to create a crackling and scraping movement of relaxation.

Some see the coming months as death as bears begin to prepare themselves to sleep, and the trees shed their green canopies. I view the season as a time of relaxation, our land falling asleep so that it can come back in the Spring to start the cycle anew. Not to mention I greatly dislike the summer heat and this is an early promise that things will be cool for awhile.

Fall marks my Birthday, the start of school, new series on TV, and most importantly Halloween! That time of the year where we can pretend to be evil (instead of actually being evil), watch scary movies, and eat candy until our stomachs bleed. There was no defining moment when Fall became my favorite time of the year, my planet didn't turn, and I didn't have some sudden earth-shattering realization. There's just those things in life you know feel right to you, and this is one of those times for me.