I am, surprisingly, too busy to do much decorating these days. Autumn is the exception: the outlier that proves the rule. I love decorating for fall inside and out. I don’t particularly know why I like fall so much. I think I have the opposite of seasonal affective disorder. I don’t like winter, I dread the extremely long wait for spring here in the Wilds, but I can’t help but be excited when fall comes.

Fall blooming flowers, like this Aster, are then lumped into my favorite plant category because of this (supplanted only by early spring blooms like my Hellebore and Crocus collections). There’s something like rebellion in these plants. They dare nature to give them their worst and they continue to bloom despite the temperature. This exact pumpkin is still going strong even though winter decided to rear its gnarling head early this year. Early for recent years anyway – climate change shortened our winter from Halloween to St. Patrick’s Day in my childhood to a late December and January only affair since the 2010s. That’s what happens when you live at the bottom of the snow belt.

This guy enjoys the view as well.

If you like my photography, please consider buying a print! It will look great in a gallery wall or as standalone autumn decor.

Let me know what you think in the comments.