If you’ve been reading my blog you can’t help but know that I love to bake and cook with pumpkin so, as you might imagine, I love fall. But it’s not just the pumpkin that shows up in things from coffee to ice cream that I love.
Fall commands the attention of all my senses. The crisp air that requires a jacket. The leaves in hues of orange, yellow and red capture both my eyes and my ears when the crunch underfoot. That crunching creates a leafy aroma like the grinding of spices. I hear the geese call good by as the cross the sky in perfect V formation. The Red-winged Blackbirds gather and put on a nightly show swooping as one for weeks before they too head south. As the sun moves south it sets earlier and earlier. Walking in the dusk of evening, house windows glow and I imagine the of families gathered inside. And when I return home the warmth of a fire greets me. It’s fall!
When you are writing it is important to think about your senses. What senses are awakened by a place, season, or activity? Including such details, not in a big paragraph as above, but slipped in here and there will enrich your story and help your reader feel like they are in the story with you!
A Recipe
Now, who wants some Pumpkin Cinnamon Pull-Apart Loaf?!
Making Magic with Words 
Yummy! And yes, I love Fall too. Although we don’t have the traditional weather in LA that you have where you live (and where I grew up) there is still an autumnal feel in the air and the color of sunlight changes. Happy Fall, Holly!
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Happy Fall to you! It’s interesting you mention the light change because I notice that too. How it hits the trees at the end of the day. And now that we face East with open skies, we really see how the sun comes north in the summer and moves south for the winter!
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