Yearning For Fall

I'm not sure there is a season that garners more yearning than fall. 

It happens to me every year. 

I cannot wait to pull out the bins filled with pumpkins and  scarecrows. 

After a few weeks of the extra fluff and folderol, I get anxious to pull it all down and pack it back up. 

It's a delicate balance. 

Poor Bill. 

'Tis the season of bins everywhere! 

Texas is tricky. 

While the rest of the country is showing off its autumn splendor, our leaves are still as green as can be. 

We start our show by mid to late November. 

Most of the time Bill is raking leaves before he puts out the Christmas lights. 

The Lord and I are going to have a conversation about this some day.

 I have to stop myself from decorating the house too early. 

It's even worse since I started blogging because every blogger wants to have the new pumpkin design that will go viral. 

Seriously, the one out of canning jar lids is just too cute. 
I think if you do a Google image search this pumpkin will pop right up.  

  

The orange gets to me after a few weeks so I've tried to come up with other colors that aren't as jarring to my senses and that are consistent with what is going on outside.

I like to use naturals. 

Heading outside to clip tree branches isn't going to happen because not much is going on. 

My dwarf Nandina bushes are my new "go to" source for branches during the fall.

 The chartreuse green leaves with a touch of coral are perfection. 

The delicate leaf is consistent with fall rather than a waxy leaf which would read tropical. 

They last for weeks. 

 I haven't started decorating for fall, yet, but I am pinning away images on Pinterest.  
Follow me over there for inspiration.
I have done a few little vignettes to celebrate late summer and the start of school.  

 Come back to see some more.
I'm patiently waiting and will try to enjoy each month and season as it comes. 
Thanks for stopping by!
Katie

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