My 10 Favorite Things This Time of Year

Fall is my favorite time of year and I thought I would share my top ten with you.

1. My morning commute on Highland Avenue. I know that may sound a little crazy – LOVING your morning drive into work – but I truly do. We recently moved and my new route takes me along my favorite road in Birmingham, Highland Avenue. I lived off Highland Avenue in 2004 and it’s a beautiful, winding picturesque road that runs along three parks before emptying into the heart of Birmingham. When I lived on Highland I loved walking it for hours, stopping at each park to watch dogs or write in my journal. And when fall came it was the perfect place to watch the leaves change color and fall. When I started taking Highland as my new path to work I remembered why it’s my favorite road in Birmingham.
2. The smells. Fall always brings the most delicious smells with it. I love stepping outside and smelling a fire burning somewhere, hot chocolate, or hot dogs at a Friday night high school football game.
3. People. I tend to see more people out and about in the cooler months, with their children, dogs, loved ones, and more. It’s so nice when it’s not 9,000 degrees outside so your face won’t slide off if you want to go on a picnic.
4. The air! I LOVE FALL AIR!!! The crisper air is pure oxygen to me (ha!) and invigorates me like nothing else. It gets me going and I actually get stuff done AND want to be outside doing it. Fall FTW!
5. All the soup. I eat so much soup when it starts turning cooler. I swear, the minute it got under 90 degrees I was like craving tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. I’ve had soup at least once a week since then, if not more. I am officially 80 years old and don’t care because I look GREAT for 80!
6. The clothes. I love layers, cozy sweaters, tights, jackets, and fun booties. I live for warm clothes. It’s too bad we only get to wear them for a week in Alabama. But seriously, I have always loved (and felt I looked cute in) darker colors and fall favorites.
7. Holidays. The holidays are just around the corner and you can feel the energy starting to build. The air feels electric.
8. Fire! (in my best Beavis voice) I love sitting around a fire when it’s cold. We make fires in our fire pit outside any time we can and will be using our fireplace indoors very soon. I love how fires instantly calm, warm, and mesmerize me. Throw in some s’mores and I’m a happy camper!
9. Daylight savings ends! Enough said.
10. Blog Like Crazy. Seriously, I wasn’t kidding when I said this is one of the most wonderful times of the year. It’s awesome because my girlfriends all step up their blogging and writing game, I get to learn a lot more about them during this month from their great posts, I get great advice and help from our Fearless Leader Javacia during the month long event, and it challenges me. It pushes me to get out of my comfort zone, do better than I did the year before, produce better content and try to use what I’ve learned in the past year from being a member of See Jane Write. We’ll see how it goes. 🙂