Autumnal Equinox

It's officially autumn today and soon the trees around here in Michigan will ease into color.  It's my favorite time of year, one I look forward to, but one that goes too quickly. It's hard to believe that September is almost gone.

Each fall I do a couple things to try to celebrate it, capture it and slow it down.

One thing is, I get out my fall/Halloween quilt projects and work on them at least until the end of October.  They are a couple of projects I have been picking away at for a few years now, and I won't finish them this year either, but it's fun to sew on them while the season is in gear.

The second thing is, I get out my "October Notebook" and I write about autumn things. I like to write up a few simple memoir essays about Halloween from when the kids where small. I also have a character I write short stories about (set only in the fall, with a creepy undercurrent) and each year I write another short story in that series.

And lastly, each year I re-read Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes." It's absolutely one of the best books set in October ever written - and creepy too.