favorite fall things

• Honeycrisp apples--tart, crunchy, and sweet
• apple crisp, apple pie, caramel apples, hot mulled apple cider
  
• my niece's first day of school excitement
• the Renaissance Festival
  
• my birthday!
• Oktoberfest
• walks along the Mississippi River with leaves crunching underfoot
• sweater weather returns
• watching the Twins in the playoffs/world series (well, maybe not this year)
  
• our wedding anniversary!
• fall colors, especially the brilliant scarlet, crimson and orange leaves on our maple tree against the intense blue of an October sky
• Indian Summer
• the end of ragweed season!
  
• watching Fiona frolic in the leaves while George rakes the lawn
  
• singing the Litany of Saints at All Souls' vespers
• election day, BECAUSE DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!!!!!
• hanging out with family after Thanksgiving dinner--and my Aunt Jo's sweet potato hot dish