(pre-post note:  This post is going to look familiar to those of you who use feed readers.  I set it to auto-post last week, then changed my mind because I wanted to add something about my feelings for Autumn.

For me, Autumn is the time of year when I feel like everything is possible and life is just beginning.  It's how I imagine most people feel about Spring.  Fall is when I really feel in tune with the Earth.  I love everything about it  ... cinnamon, hot cocoa, pumpkins, hay bales, scarecrows, owls, strawflower, Halloween candy, witches, black cats, the evil lurking in the shadows, chili, grilled cheese sandwiches dipped in tomato soup, fall leaves, chimney smoke, pecan pie, bare branches, squirrels hiding nuts for the winter, sweaters, entropy .. ... everything.

Sure, it's the season of my birth, but I think my connection with Fall is much deeper than that.  It's a connection that is with me all year long.

We took this drive in October, and now it seems weird to post it because it is CHRISTMAS everywhere you go, but, what the heck ...)

So what do you do right after you get rid of your car?  Go on a road trip, of course. :)  We've been wanting to do a New England Fall Foliage road trip since we moved to the East Cost, but have only heard horror stories about the CRAZY traffic (which we witnessed first-hand when we drove up to Montréal years ago).  Couple that with the fact that you have to book your accommodations years in advance, apparently, and it makes the trip impossible.

Now that we're car-less we finally started thinking close to home and realized that we were only hours away from some beautiful fall leaves right here in our own state.  We only spent 3 days driving around Northern PA, but we saw so much!  Andrew recently posted his photos in a gallery on his site. (click the "View Thumbnails" link on the left if you want to quickly jump around).  He only posted 172 of the 1,733 photos he took.

Some of my favorites in addition to the amazing photo above:
· door of old train station
· raven on a picnic table these ravens were BIG
· the coolest old church
· great broccoli, as Andrew and I were calling it
· morning fog in the town that had a Ben Franklin Crafts store that made me want to live there for the rest of my life.

I also uploaded a ton of photos to my Flickr.  Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year.  I wish I could walk right into the woods in the middle of Autumn and live there forever.  Really.  I do.