Autumn is here....

[wolfie69]

Fall is my favorite time of year. There is a certain smell in the air, warm days and cool nights. It always causes me to reflect on my life and where it is headed. This year, especially with the attack of Sept 11, I have thought alot about what I would like to do with the rest of my life.

I have just been offered the chance to live in a log cabin, in the country, on 150 acres of beautiful land. There are horse on the land and an incredible view...It is the kind of place I have thought about for a long time.

Where do you see youself going or what would you like to be doing in the near future, if you could?

 

[Angel]

Fall is my favorite time of year. There is a certain smell in the air, warm days and cool nights. It always causes me to reflect on my life and where it is headed. This year, especially with the attack of Sept 11, I have thought alot about what I would like to do with the rest of my life.

I have just been offered the chance to live in a log cabin, in the country, on 150 acres of beautiful land. There are horse on the land and an incredible view...It is the kind of place I have thought about for a long time.

Where do you see youself going or what would you like to be doing in the near future, if you could?

Fall is also my favorite part of the year. It will probably be the one and only thing I miss when I move to Florida. October won't feel like October when I'm down there.


You're so lucky with the cabin. That is exactly what I want to do someday, horses included.

 

[Guest]

mmmm

I love autumn.

I'd love to be in this picture, again.

* Edited due to bad typing/wording. I made the mistake of dipping my finger into the sugar-filled batter of my hubby's applesauce raisin bday cake. I'm a bit hyper.

 

[Silverlily]

Where do you see youself going or what would you like to be doing in the near future, if you could? [/B]

I can see myself living in the middle of nowhere. The odd thing is, years ago, I couldn't imagine living more than five miles from a grocery store.

The cabin sounds beautiful, just make sure you have internet access. You not around nearly enough.

 

[MissTaken]

Autumn

It is also my favorite time of year. This weekend we will be going through the Adirondacks, to Vermont and into the Green Mountains. It is a great trip and an annual trek.

Take the cabin, wolfie! Then perhaps you need someone to help stoke the fire in the cool of winter

Fall for me has always meant the beginning of changes....throughout my life. This year it has proven to be the same. I hope to find my dream job and finalize my divorce. Then, plan for a springtime move back to the country. In the meantime, I am unemployed and resting, as per my own choice, healing and rejuvenating after many years of constant stress and energy output.

I do love fall and it is the perfect time to review life and plan ahead.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I was going to start a similar thread

because i was listening to the song My Next Thirty Years.

This is a difficult year for me. I'm contemplating divorce, wondering how that will change everything, and if it will change enough.

I'm leaving town for a week. My first solitary trip since I got married 7 years ago. I have a lot of thinking and soul searching to do. Maybe I can add more to this thread when I get back.

 

[Guest]

Why is it that we (as in women) do not take these solo trips? I was pondering why I've only taken one in my adult years. Some of my friends have never taken such a trip.
I hope you have a wonderful, fulfilling, truth-telling, and comforting trip!

bright blessings!

 

[wolfie69]

Miss Taken

WOW! you will be passing close to me... I just came out of the Adirondacks last week after back packing with my dogs.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Why is it that we (as in women) do not take these solo trips? I was pondering why I've only taken one in my adult years. Some of my friends have never taken such a trip.
I hope you have a wonderful, fulfilling, truth-telling, and comforting trip!

bright blessings!

Thank you!

I think one reason we don't take these trips is that we're more closely tied to the home. I'm already agonizing about leaving my kids, but I know if I don't do this, I'll never forgive myself and I'll never get the time and space to do the thinking I need to do.

So, I'm taking my horse and my camping gear and heading for the Ozarks. If I survive (she's slightly psychotic), maybe I'll come back with some answers.

 

[MissTaken]

Sounds incredible, PCG, and I wish that I had done some alone time a long time ago. Perhaps, then, with a little soul searching and healing and planning, things would have been different for me.

Take the time and use it well. You deserve it!


And yes, wolfie, I believe we are fairly close.

 

[ohiobbw]

I love Autumn!!!!!!

 

[Natalie Nessus]

Best Wishes

So, I'm taking my horse and my camping gear and heading for the Ozarks. If I survive (she's slightly psychotic), maybe I'll come back with some answers.

It's important to take time to reflect when you are in the middle of life-changing decisions Good luck

 

[nasty]

I LOVE ALL seasons...other than Winter. YUCK, SNOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ShyGuy68]

A couple of years ago I went to Massachusetts on vacation, and took these pictures of the foilage, very beautiful

http://home1.stofanet.dk/shakes68/Images/FrenchKingsBridgeView1.jpg

http://home1.stofanet.dk/shakes68/Images/FrenchKingsBridgeView2.jpg

http://home1.stofanet.dk/shakes68/Images/FrenchKingsBridgeView3.jpg

http://home1.stofanet.dk/shakes68/Images/FrenchKingsBridgeView4.jpg

 

[Starfish]

ShyGuy, Is that the Berkshire region? I have lived in MA, and my folks live there now. I really love it there. Nice pics. Very nice.

Tomorrow I am going hiking so I'll have more picks, but the leaves have just started to change out in the back of my house....

It was a rainy day today.

 

[ShyGuy68]

Starfish I have no clue as to what the region is named, but I do remember that I took the pictures from the "French Kings Bridge".

 

[Guest]

Great shots- nice color and texture.

 

[MissTaken]

Great photos!

Thank you for sharing Starfish and Shy Guy!




I am going hiking this weekend, if it doesn't rain though

The leaves are peaking and the geese are migrating. Yay!

 

[Guest]

I love this tree. It's all that autumn means to me- pumpkins, candy corn, and warm sun on your face.

 

[cymbidia]

Re: I was going to start a similar thread

This is a difficult year for me. I'm contemplating divorce, wondering how that will change everything, and if it will change enough.

This has been a difficult year for me, too; you have my sympathy in your ongoing struggle to make decisions that may well be life-altering, for you as well as the other people in your day-to-day life.

Autumn is a scary time for me. I hate and fear the snow, although it looks like i will be moving away from redneck eastern Washington and back to liberal northern CA, where i belong, where the weather behaves, in December. Maybe i'll miss the snow. (It's already gotten way way cold at night though - who am i kidding? I'm not going to completely escape it.)

Autumn, even without the weather and even not living here in this inhospitable place, has for me always been a time of closing, of nesting, of saying goodbye to the year and that which the year brought. It's fitting for me, then, that my situation is resolving itself in the autumn and early winter of the year.

I hope your trip is all you want it to be, pagancowgirl, and the answers you need come from your time of solitude.

 

[Guest]

And, in the coastal plains of N.C.- autumn looks a lot like this:

 

[wolfie69]

I remember it well...

I lived on the coast of N.C. some years ago.... it is a different autumn there than here in the northeast...