First Day of Fall

I've got to quit talking about fall so much, but today is officially the first day! I desperately want to pull out my light weight sweaters, but it's still not quite cool enough. However, thanks to an over active air conditioner, I have been able to wear my jackets to class. To make this first day of fall feel even more official since the weather is only being slightly cooperative (at least it's not oppressively hot), I'm sitting here eating Brach's pumpkins which is pretty much the best candy ever invented. Thanks mom for the care package!

I decided to walk around campus between classes today, and found many signs of fall including...

Some steps that are covered with leaves that the grounds crew has yet to get around to.



And some smaller trees that are already looking very bare.



There are also some signs around the house that fall has officially arrived.

For instance, Kanon has hung a great fall-esque wreath on our front door. Yes, I'll have to admit for those of you who are wondering, it does creep me out a little bit. I'm constantly checking it for snakes and other critters as I go in and out the door, and I seem to make a point to move it around a lot so that nothing could get comfortable in there. If you don't know the story, Julie got a snake in her house a few years back because she opened her front door and unbeknownst to her there was a snake who had decided to take up residence in her wreath. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a wreath on her door since then, and I definitely wasn't going to put one up. However, I really do like how they look so all in all it may creep me out, but I like it.



Also, ever since I fell in love with and bought one of Wal-mart's candles from their fall line, I think it's pumpkin, our house has not only looked fall-esque but also smells like it. I don't think that I have ever burned a candle of this size so fast in my life. I've lit it at least once if not two or three times a day since I bought it, and now after only two measly weeks it's almost gone! Maybe I'll have to limit myself to burning it only once every other day or something so that I can make it last longer...



Now if only the leaves would start turning and the new season of CSI would start...