Face it! It's Fall.

Yesterday I happened to be in Wally World, trying to focus on my task at hand, when I noticed a display promoting flu shots.   <em>What?! </em> And this morning my kids went back to school.   <em>What's happening?! </em> To further my confusion, I pulled in the driveway after dropping the kids, and noticed a whole tree, the whole thing, is orange.<br/><br/>Ugh.  With a capital U.  I guess there's really no denying it - it's fall y'all.  Part of me wants to cry, the other part wants to throw something in the crock pot, curl up with a book, and mentally wave goodbye to mosquitoes, sunscreen, and quite frankly, burgers.  I do know we'll have a few beautiful summer days, maybe even manage to get out on the lake a time or two, but our days are truly numbered.<br/><br/>Don't get me wrong.  Fall is okay.  However, in Central New York, Fall equals <em>IMPENDING WINTER</em>.  But let's not go there, I'm starting to get hives just thinking about it.<br/><br/>Ready or not, I suppose I have to make a small effort to welcome in the changing season.  I'm not saying I can handle pumpkins and gourds, corn stalks and scarecrows, and mums in every corner.   But I guess I could make a teeny tiny little effort.  After all, my hanging baskets look like something out of "The Living Dead" - they're still hanging there, but the life has left.   Not to mention, the pansies look like a some sort of sick Halloween prank.<br/><br/>So, that being said, here are a couple of things I could consider...<br/><br/>Loving and old post from Thrifty Decor Chic with window boxes.  I am definitely going to borrow this idea:<br/><br/><img alt="" height="277" id="il_fi" src="http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/image-files/pumpkin-project-2.jpg" width="400" /><br/><br/>Or these mum "stuffed" pumpkins, photo by Amber Bordelon, are really cute.  I would probably use fake pumkins from the dollar store so that I don't have to deal with them molding and mutating on me.<br/><br/><img alt="Pinned Image" id="pinCloseupImage" src="http://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com/upload/492649928764074_5EFEYaCE_c.jpg" /><br/><br/>And from nowserveme.wordpress.com, I love the lighted branches and gourds (I already have a few strands of lighted branches):<br/><br/><img alt="Pinned Image" id="pinCloseupImage" src="http://media-cache-lt0.pinterest.com/upload/84231455501430174_fjAEt9P1_c.jpg" /><br/><br/>Similarly, like this vase from Pinterest:<br/><br/><img alt="Pinned Image" id="pinCloseupImage" src="http://media-cache-lt0.pinterest.com/upload/201817627021076976_vCJAJjDK_c.jpg" /><br/><br/>Dried beans and berries - cheap and cheerful:<br/><br/><img alt="Fall Fill" src="http://images.meredith.com/content/dam/bhg/Images/2010/07/101504048.jpg.rendition.largest.jpg" /><br/><br/>And also this from budgetwisehome.com.  You could do the wax paper trick to preserve the leaves before you put them in a vase.<br/><br/><img alt="" height="500" id="il_fi" src="http://www.budgetwisehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/FallLeavesVase2.jpg" width="333" /><br/><br/>All in all, it's not too terribly ambitious, but baby steps people.  I'm mourning the loss of summer.

Face it! It's Fall.

Yesterday I happened to be in Wally World, trying to focus on my task at hand, when I noticed a display promoting flu shots.   What?!  And ...

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