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Hello, old friend

September 12, 2012 By Ying 5 Comments

I am finally feeling a return of the autumn love, my friends, and today I want to share some of the things I like best about it:

Crisp nights.

Jeans.

Pears and apples.

Stacking firewood. (It has its own zen rhythm.)

The bounty of the farmer’s market.

Little kids getting excited about Hallowe’en costumes. Already.

Fall colours, of course.

The last of the crazy-sweet cherry tomatoes. We had some fabulous yellow gourd-shaped ones this year that were, honestly, better than candy.

Also, my uncle emailed to ask if I’d seen any moon cakes or lanterns in Kingston, which are part of a traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It’s on September 30 this year, and I hadn’t even thought to look yet! (I’m not a moon-cake girl, but they are beautiful and I always want to trace them with my fingers. And who doesn’t love a paper lantern?) So there’s the Mid-Autumn Festival, too.

The rapid descent into winter. Maybe fall’s real appeal, for me, is its brevity. I cherish it because it’s such a brisk, idyllic time.

What are you looking forward to, this autumn?

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Comments

  1. Helena says

    September 12, 2012 at 10:33 am

    The stepping in the crispy leaf piles thing and conkers – just the general feeling of autumn! 🙂

  2. Katie says

    September 12, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    I agree with Helena. And jackets and sweaters and cuddling and apple cider and how it’s not quite cold but it’s most definitely not hot. *sighs* I AM SO HAPPY IT’S COMING.

  3. Ying says

    September 13, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Helena, I can’t believe I forgot about conkers! We don’t have any horse-chestnut trees in my current neighbourhood, but they were all over the place when I was a child. *happy sigh of nostalgia* And yes, yes, yes to moderate temperatures, Katie!

  4. MelodyJ says

    September 14, 2012 at 9:02 am

    The food and clothes. I’m starting to see fall produce in the stores. The coolness in the air. There’s less bugs. The state fair. The leaves changing colors. We have had three summers in a row of triple digit temperatures. I look forward to autumn more than ever. I just saw the crazy sweet tomatoes for the first time . They may have been there before but I’ve never notice them. I have to try them now.

  5. Ying says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Melody, you’re so right about the fall harvest. I’m ridiculously happy to see local root vegetables (and then I remember how ho-hum they feel in January, when all I want is asparagus!).

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