Drifting Leaves: Autumn Tag Challenge

🎵 "La-di-dah-di-dah-di-dum, 'tis autumn!" 🎵

I'm so excited to *ahem* steal this tag from Lizzie at Starlight and Saucepans because who wouldn't want to bask in the glory of autumn in blogger style?! 😊🍁🍂  Here are the rules!

1. Download the cover photo and use it for your post
2. Acknowledge the person who tagged you
3. Tag others and comment on their blog to let them know!
4. Slip into autumn vibes

 Now without further adieu, let's jump into this proverbial pile of leaves that are questions! 

1. If autumn isn't your favourite season, what is? And if autumn is your favourite season, why?

Back in 2017, it was my second favorite season, but I go back and forth between spring and autumn being my #1 favorite.  I love the cooling temperatures, the changing colors, and the anticipation of the holidays that it brings.  Of course there will be Thanksgiving and the beginning of Advent, but there are some other feasts such as Christ the King, All Saints, and the octave of All Souls that I dearly love as well.

2. What is your favourite thing that you do each autumn?

My most regular favorite thing I do each autumn would be celebrate Thanksgiving.  I know that's for a later question though.  I look forward to listening to my autumn playlist and possibly adding to it as well!  (You can find it below!)  So many people rush into Christmas music only to wear out the same five songs by mid December, so I love savoring the season with cozy autumnal music.  I also very much enjoy praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory every November when we visit the local cemeteries.

3. What are a couple of your favourite autumn memories?

I have quite a few!  My mom's birthday, which is in October, is a highlight for two different years.  One year, friends of ours threw her a huge surprise party at their house and it was a jolly autumn bash!  Another year, my family took her up to the mountains to enjoy the cooler temperatures, the falling leaves, and a little picnic!  That was a delightful time.

Trips to the nearby orchard also come to mind.  There's not much like getting outdoors, roaming the orchards and fields, harvesting apples or potatoes, and enjoying delicious apple cider donuts.

Of course, times with family and friends at Thanksgiving have to be my all-time favorite autumn memories.

4. What book most reminds you of the autumn? Movie?

The first book that comes to mind is, of course, Anne of Windy Popplars.  This cover is the ideal autumn afternoon for me!  As for a movie, I *love* watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving each year around Thanksgiving.  I recenly discovered The Inheritance, based on the novel by L. M. Alcott.  While this movie is not expressly autumnal, there is something about the colors, characters, and settings that give a very fall-ish feeling.

*swoons*

          

5. What is your favourite drink for the season?

Chai tea is my go-to all year 'round, but at this time of year, I love pumkin chai; not the artificiall kind, but one from little coffee shops that use whole ingredients so that the latte tastes of pumpkin puree and fall goodness!! 

6. What is one new thing you want to do this autumn?

I want to travel to an area that has real fall foliage.  I live in the Southwest of the US, so we don't get much, if any, change in leaves.  We're surrounded mostly by pine and palm trees.  To be in a place that truly requires a fall overcoat, a scarf, and a warm drink in your hand would be lovely!

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7. Do you decorate for the autumn? If so, how soon? If not, why?

Why, yes, we do!  Not half as much as they do for fall Hallmark movies (that is next to craziness), but we have a tote or two of autumn decor that we usually bring out sometime in November, especially for Thanksgiving.  It's so nostalgic because we've had a lot of the decorations since I was little.

8. What is your favourite way to celebrate Thanksgiving?

Each year is pretty much the same for my family, and I wouldn't really change it.  I absolutely love spending time with dear family and friends.  It's usually a modest size gathering, not too fancy, but with plenty of charm.  When my sister and I were growing up, we would often make Thanksgiving crafts to decorate, personalize place cards, or even cook up a skit or two to perform between dinner and dessert!  

A couple of years ago, I really loved the way we began cooking the turkey the day before Thanksgiving because you know that smell just makes Thanksgiving official, so it really felt like we had two Thanksgiving days!

9. What colour makes you think most of autumn?

I suppose a warm, almost burt orrange.  But I do have to agree with Lizzie and Olivia @MeanwhileinRivendelle that all the autumn colors of orranges, yellows, reds, and browns together are quintessential autumn.

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10. Type up a list of ten words or names that encapsulate the season of autumn for you.

• thankful

• pumpkin

• cozy

• family

• warmth

• crisp

• nourish

• wind down

• recollection

• glory

Wow!  What a fun tag!  Thank you again, Lizzie for letting me steal it from you! 😉 How about you?  What are your autumn favorites?  Feel free to answer the tag questions on your own blog and share your answers with me in the comments below!  I really would like to read them!  

I hope you have a wonderful rest of autumn!

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