making_art
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Happy Fall...one of my fav seasons!
making_art
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Sorry, that your triggers are related to the Fall....if only it was as simple as me wishing you some great Fall feelings or sharing some of mine with you....
Good for trying the embracement if Fall...Im thinking you should gain something for your efforts...
What if you started a new to you tradition....
I am going to try to participate in all the Fall festivities this year instead of avoiding them and trying to run from them.I think doing them with people I truly care about will make a difference.
I am actually excited about it,and have plans for the weekend already.
And I am excited about all the different pumpkin flavor foods...pumpkin pie,pumpkin shakes and flurries,pumpkin bread,cookies,coffee.....:love_heart:
I am actually excited about it,and have plans for the weekend already.
And I am excited about all the different pumpkin flavor foods...pumpkin pie,pumpkin shakes and flurries,pumpkin bread,cookies,coffee.....:love_heart:
making_art
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Oh no pumpkin goodies....and I'm trying to lose a few pounds.....I'll just have a small piece of pumpkin pie without the whipped cream![emoji83][emoji316][emoji513]
Pumpkin is so yummy. When I hear how many interesting edible goodies happen with holidays and seasons that are not a big deal over here, I get jealous. [emoji3]
making_art
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Starbucks caramel apple spice...apple cider, whipped cream, caramel drizzle......oh my its good on a Fall evening[emoji449][emoji260]
Pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting....yum
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That sounds so good!!
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That sounds so good!!
making_art
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We eat pumpkin as a vegetable - cook it and mash it with a little butter and salt and pepper. One of our absolute favourites and really good for you too.
I love autumn as I love the colours and the smells. We love to watch the birds migrating south and the changeover of birds in our yard from summer birds to the ones who stay all winter.
I love autumn as I love the colours and the smells. We love to watch the birds migrating south and the changeover of birds in our yard from summer birds to the ones who stay all winter.
Okay, I guess I've never seen a field of orange pumpkins before, and it's a beautiful thing.😍
making_art
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MHJo.....do you have a Fall season and if so what is it like?
Well, we call it Autumn over here, and I'm guessing if I was really in rural outback place where nobody had bothered attempting to grow foreign deciduous trees, maybe I really may not have in real life seen the beautiful changing colours and the "fall" of the leaves.... My knowledge is not exact about whether Australia does have some native deciduous plants in some places, but I'm pretty sure over in the West here no native plants are deciduous...... (?)
But because there are plenty of them planted in my mediterranean-climate city and many will do OK as long as you take care of them in the dry summer while they establish, that part is certainly not unknown to me. I think though that we don't get as much range of all the different beautiful colours - things like maples and various others aren't tolerant of our scorching long dry summer. And for street plantings by the government, a small range of hardy reliable species get favored. So to see a bigger and prettier range of deciduous trees you'll look in people's yards, pretty plant nurseries and some parks, older towns/old suburbs, maybe orchards, etc.
Yeah, the more spectacular ones tend not to be bulk-planted. I certainly would love at some stage to head to the northern hemisphere to see those incredible displays of how they look en masse, in nature and stuff.
What happens where I live, in autumn, is basically this: a collective worn-out, exhausted sigh of relief among us of, "Oh, thank GOD!! I think the summer heat is starting to ease off!!"
(Even the whole first month of autumn is horrific. The second month, April, we get relief. And I also go around with a dirty look on a couple of April days that will still be bad. Picture me a couple of times a year screaming into the cosmos in outrage: "FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!! IT'S APRIL!!!!!!!"
Okay. So then we start kind of ''recovering' and just noticing that we can venture outdoors in the daytime and not be suffering and incapacitated. So you think of things you can finally get done and stuff. People often camp or holiday at Easter or do DIY projects, do their yard and garden work.
You get a bit of a stretch of that, and then you just kind of adjust to the "3/4 beautiful, 1/4 rainy" weather that is nonsummer. April to November basically. (November also has that same Occasional April Heat Outrage phenomenon.)
Then back to December -> March for Another Summer of Hell. 😂
Nah, people do their evening barbecues and parties and they enjoy it. It just exhausts me though.
I enjoy autumn because it's Not Summer. 😆
But because there are plenty of them planted in my mediterranean-climate city and many will do OK as long as you take care of them in the dry summer while they establish, that part is certainly not unknown to me. I think though that we don't get as much range of all the different beautiful colours - things like maples and various others aren't tolerant of our scorching long dry summer. And for street plantings by the government, a small range of hardy reliable species get favored. So to see a bigger and prettier range of deciduous trees you'll look in people's yards, pretty plant nurseries and some parks, older towns/old suburbs, maybe orchards, etc.
Yeah, the more spectacular ones tend not to be bulk-planted. I certainly would love at some stage to head to the northern hemisphere to see those incredible displays of how they look en masse, in nature and stuff.
What happens where I live, in autumn, is basically this: a collective worn-out, exhausted sigh of relief among us of, "Oh, thank GOD!! I think the summer heat is starting to ease off!!"
(Even the whole first month of autumn is horrific. The second month, April, we get relief. And I also go around with a dirty look on a couple of April days that will still be bad. Picture me a couple of times a year screaming into the cosmos in outrage: "FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!! IT'S APRIL!!!!!!!"
Okay. So then we start kind of ''recovering' and just noticing that we can venture outdoors in the daytime and not be suffering and incapacitated. So you think of things you can finally get done and stuff. People often camp or holiday at Easter or do DIY projects, do their yard and garden work.
You get a bit of a stretch of that, and then you just kind of adjust to the "3/4 beautiful, 1/4 rainy" weather that is nonsummer. April to November basically. (November also has that same Occasional April Heat Outrage phenomenon.)
Then back to December -> March for Another Summer of Hell. 😂
Nah, people do their evening barbecues and parties and they enjoy it. It just exhausts me though.
I enjoy autumn because it's Not Summer. 😆
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making_art
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Lit those photos are inspiring. My fav are birch trees in the Fall with there white bark.
MHJo... Thanks for the great description The seasons in Australia. I could never tolerate that kind of heat!...The benefit of living on the Northern Pacific coast is the cool breeze always cones off the ocean on the days we reach 28-30 degrees celsius.
MHJo... Thanks for the great description The seasons in Australia. I could never tolerate that kind of heat!...The benefit of living on the Northern Pacific coast is the cool breeze always cones off the ocean on the days we reach 28-30 degrees celsius.
30 degrees celsius! How *do* you cope! 😆😆
Hahaha, kidding aside, I do wonder how I would be in a genuine northern hemisphere winter..... maybe my body doesn't know the true meaning temperature discomfort....... 😉
Hahaha, kidding aside, I do wonder how I would be in a genuine northern hemisphere winter..... maybe my body doesn't know the true meaning temperature discomfort....... 😉
making_art
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Hahaha.....I don't cope...I melt! We have cherry blossoms blooming on the trees in February. We have rainy winters with some frost but rarely snow. We also have many people here from Australia.
On the 30 degree days in summer we dance around in gratitude about getting some mild days. :woohoo:
Sounds like a lovely place Making Art!
Yeah, I do love hearing about all the various things that happen differently in places far away.....
Actually I should post a pic of some of the unusual plants and things..... A nice incentive to get out and about and take some photos....
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Okay I just looked at that picture of the pumpkin field again. So here's what happens at some point when you go to the supermarket with your mum when you're a little kid in this city.
From all the media we get that originates from North America, and perhaps other places too, and exposure to a mild version of Halloween, you'll expect pumpkins to look like this.
But what we actually see in the store are two varieties we get here, which look like this,
and this.
Thus begins the gathering of knowledge of what's different in other places.... starting from that childhood moment of Pumpkin Confusion.
:woohoo:Sounds like a lovely place Making Art!
Yeah, I do love hearing about all the various things that happen differently in places far away.....
Actually I should post a pic of some of the unusual plants and things..... A nice incentive to get out and about and take some photos....
---------- Post Merged at 01:28 PM ---------- Previous Post was at 01:03 PM ----------
Okay I just looked at that picture of the pumpkin field again. So here's what happens at some point when you go to the supermarket with your mum when you're a little kid in this city.
From all the media we get that originates from North America, and perhaps other places too, and exposure to a mild version of Halloween, you'll expect pumpkins to look like this.
But what we actually see in the store are two varieties we get here, which look like this,
and this.
Thus begins the gathering of knowledge of what's different in other places.... starting from that childhood moment of Pumpkin Confusion.
making_art
Member
Hahaha....pumpkin confusion.....good idea about walking around taking photos
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