October, Sweet October

Spring shall plant

and Autumn garner

until the end of time.

~ Robert Browning

I absolutely love October...ahhh yes, I love everything about it. This month is usually when the weather changes {for good and finally} til Spring....from 90 degree days to cool and foggy and frosty and orange~y and golden~y and wood smoke~y and yummy and of course a tad bit rain~y...yep, it is the Northwest after all, and you gotta love rain. And I do. {Remind me of this post 4 months into the season}.

So yesterday it was in the 80s and tomorrow...the mid~60s AND, yep, rain~y! Cha, cha,cha! But that is okay because I am in the middle of my own personal holiday. I love fall and with fall comes Halloween and my favorite holiday of all Thanksgiving. Now don't get me wrong...I love the quiet respectful side of Christmas and all of the child~like sweetness of the holiday but the hoop~la {even though I accept full responsibility for creating most of it} can sometimes get a tad overwhelming...but not Thanksgiving...it is one of those holidays that is perfect...and is just what it is supposed to be...Thankful. It is pretty dear to my ol' heart~ola.

Halloween is another treat for my soul. I have such fond memories from my childhood and I find it curious that such a quaint and neighborly festival still lives on. There is just something about knocking on stranger's doors and those kind strangers giving our wee ones candy....charming!

I started to put out the Halloween goodies....and I actually picked up some pumpkins for the porch and corn for the windows...I will share what I have been doing later....but for tonight...just a peek~a~loo.

Such a happy little pumpkin momma...you would

be a glad gal too if you were prancing about town with

a puffy collar...

Pumpkin tassel love...yes, love...

So tomorrow I am gonna be deep in it....pumpkins, corn, jack~o~lantern stylings of this and that and the other thing. October is here and I am going to enjoy every last living second of it or until someone steals the pumpkins from the porch...happens every year...everybody has their own way of celebrating I guess... little stinkers.

Smiles ~ Ramona