My Favorite Time Of Year

I miss a lot of things about Minnesota, but I will have to say the time of year I miss Minnesota the most is Fall. My four years there were my first experiences with fall and I never got enough of it. I love the changing leaves, the cool weather, the yummy hot coffee drinks, the clothes, and most of all the apple orchard. And at St. Olaf I think I had the best of Minnesota fall, the campus is covered in beautiful colors and Fireside Apple Orchard is just up the highway. So every year around this time when it is still 90 degrees in Houston I really would give anything to have a little bit of fall.

So even though I can't have the cool weather, and beautiful colors, and the apple orchard the one part of fall I make sure not to miss out on is the decorations. I might even love fall decorations more than Christmas decorations. It brings a little bit of the wonderful season inside and I this year I went all out. My mom and my Godmother are always sending me wonderful fall treasures that I love and every year I can't wait to put it all out.

A random assortment of fall around the house:







I even made up some fall arrangements for the front flower baskets:


This year I got a little creative with candy corn:


And since these pictures were taken I even have a few more candy corn additions from my mom that really complete the look :)

A few Halloween decorations. These are my newest decorations that I put together this year:




And my favorite decoration of all, my apple orchard: