Well, it took a while...

I have finally put my fall decorations up. Not a lot... my big decorating effort goes towards Christmastime. But I really like fall. It's a wonderful time of year. It feels more like the beginning of a new year to me than January, but maybe that's because I've always, consciously or subconsciously, been running on a school schedule.

Fall is harvest time, the time when things like apples and squashes are cheap and plentiful. It's got a lot of good celebrating days. There's Thanksgiving Day, of course, and in our family, Pie Day precedes it. My mother, aware that most of the extended family has places to go on Thanksgiving, invites everyone over on Wednesday to eat from the various Thanksgiving pies that she always makes a little ahead of time to cut down on the cooking time on the holiday itself.

I try to keep track of Columbus Day. Whether or not anyone in the family has it as a holiday, I try to do our Indian Supper the night before. The Indian Supper is merely suppertime made with only the ingredients that could be found in "the New World" before the Europeans began settling here. Generally it centers around fish and corn.

There are several birthdays in the fall, and my mother does a Halloween party with donuts and dressing up. Last year Lil Bernie (my son) dressed up as a butterfly for Halloween. This year he may be old enough to go to the church party as well. Of course, after Thanksgiving starts Christmas Season, a month full of chocolate and glowing lights and brightly patterned paper. I love Christmas Season!

Anyways... I put up my fall decorations, and here are pictures.

I always like to put a garland over the tapestry in the living room. This tapestry was first purchased by my father for his college dorm room, from a music shop, because he didn't want posters of bikinis or racecars.



Note the "Pooh Pumpkin"...


I don't like clutter in my kitchen, but I spend so much energy in that room, I like to be reminded of the seasons.


My dining room is generally my fall decoration focus. A vinyl tablecloth costs so little, and does so much in defining a seasonal theme! Those lil bear Thanksgiving figurines I bought at the Dollar Store for, of course, $3 for all three!


The 'living area' is mostly upstairs, as downstairs is mostly bedrooms. I didn't see a need to decorate every room in the house. It's too much work to remember where you put everything! But the den holds our big TV, entertainment center, enough seating for an extended family, and it needed some 'fall pizazz'. The little bear figures are more of the same dollar store set. :)