What Do You Love About Fall!

[RedRoseSAI]

Originally posted by valkyrie
having hair that looks decent (no more humidity!),

Ohhhh that's SO true! I have very thick, very straight hair that looks awesome when I curl it, but I pretty much pack away the curling iron from June-September. I can't wait to curl my hair, put on my favorite sweater, my awesome camel boots, and eat some pumpkin pie while tailgating! Add my husband, best buds, my famous "apple cider for grown ups" and the smell of burning leaves, and you've got the perfect autumn afternoon!

[MeLikey]

Though fall equals the end of my favorite season, summer, there are aspects I do like about fall. When I was in school, fall meant a brand new exciting school year, along with back to school clothes. I love to go apple picking, though I haven't been in a while, I want to go this year! Now as a recent grad, I can't wait for HOMECOMING!!! I also enjoyed riding around in one of my friend's convertibles with the top down, while we're wearing jackets, and feeling the cool breeze through our hair!

[carnation]

My husband and I just got back from a walk and it was so cool outside that I wanted to resurrect this thread! Sooooo.....what do you like best about fall?

[Sister Havana]

My birthday is in the fall.

[KSUViolet06]

*NCAA football and basketball.
*New fall sweaters.
*New fall jeans

[AOIIsilver]

Jumping into piles of freshly rakes leaves.
Football games with mugs of hot coco.
The Great Smoky Mountains during "color season"---They look like God spilled paint all over the mountains.
Happiness.
Silver

[KATwoman]

I love fall and winter. Not such a summer person. Fall has cold but sunny weather, colored leaves, soccer, football, pumpkins, Halloween, etc.

[Tom Earp]

Fall, the changing of leafs that make it look like a painted landscape. Now is when I hwished I had a deck like when I was married and could eat out and enjoy the weatehr and the scense!

Cool sleeping at night with no air conditioning running or heating which is supposed to go go up @ 70%.

Homecoming and Fall Classic, Gorillas and Bearcats at Arrowhead and being with Brothers and their familys that dont get to see that often,


As hot as Kansas can be in the summer and cold in the winter, got to love the change of seasons!

[LightBulb]

The smell of cool air that reminds me of getting pumpkins

[SuperSister]

Ohhhhhh! I walked outside this morning and it's the first day that really feels like fall here. I love the crisp air as well as the smell in the air. I drove myself right to the mall and got my Macintosh Car Jar.

(side note: Yankee has a new Granny Smith scent out, I can't wait to try it!)

[CUGreekgirl]

When I lived in upstate SC my favorite thing was driving home to GA during Fall Break through the mountains and seeing all the beautiful colors of the changing leaves.

Both high school and college football

The Fair- its always the 2nd week in October. Unfortunately its one of the biggest things that happen in this small town.

[trojangal]

Love the colors of leaves changing during fall..

Also love watching my little girl discover the joys of crunching leaves...

Homecoming at my college...

Cooler weather...

Halloween!!! Our family always gets costumes and goes out dressed up..

[DeltAlum]

College football and my annual trip back to Ohio University for Homecoming memories. I spent years directing college and professional football games in all parts of the country and got to see much of it at the most beautiful time.

But mainly, I love the memories.

I still vividly visualize one particular Saturday that sums it up. Football Saturday in the Midwest, the first game of the season, the weekend before the start of classes -- walking down the Richland Avenue Bridge across the Hocking River, dressed to kill in light tweed patterned sport coat, nice slacks, button down collar shirt and club tie, past the venerable old Delt Shelter (House and Annex) at the very top of the bridge, to pick up the future Mrs. DA at her honors dorm (the only womens' dorm on campus with no "hours") on the West Green very close to the stadium. We had met in a speech class and started dating the semester before when I was a pledge. I had a white mum with green ribbon -- our school colors -- for her.

She was watching for me from a fourth floor window and ran out the side door to meet me for the first time that Fall. She had on a short wool patterned skirt, vest and jacket and low heels, all of which accentuated fantastic legs -- long straight brown hair and flashing blue eyes, looking spectacular like the high school beauty queen that she was. (Do you think this day -- and she -- made a lasting impression?)

I had done a 10-noon DJ shift on the university radio station "hyping" the game and the station's upcoming broadcast. (For anyone from Cleveland, our play-by-pay guy for O.U. Football was Joe Tait who did pxp Cleveland professional teams for many years -- Color announcer was Al Albert, Marv and Steve Albert's younger brother who later became radio and TV voice for the Denver Nuggetts. Also covering the game for Ohio University Broadcasting was Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, later radio voice of the San Diego Chargers)

In those days, all of the Greeks, and many other students, "dressed" for the games -- at least slacks, sweater and tie for the men and skirts and sweaters for the women. All of the fraternities and sororities had banners with their letters and sat together. The Tekes had their "Victory Bell" and the Pikes drove their antique fire engine. We Delts just brought the best looking women on campus.

I Announced for the Marching Band's pre-game and then a "rock and roll" band show at halftime where the "new look' band did the first of their now traditional dances. After a post game show, we walked with them as they marched up the bridge to the College Green, playing "Stand Up and Cheer, the O.U. fight song, with their hats reversed after a win -- the first in a 10-0 season. Hundreds of cheering, clapping students following the band. The cars on U.S. 33, which included the bridge, the main route through town just had to deal with it. A final playing of the fight song and Alma Mater under the towering hardwood trees, the multi-colored leaves just beginning to fall, on the historic College Green with red brick/white columned Federalist style buildings dating back to 1811 -- seven years after our founding.

Next, Uptown to the bars, which were then on the first block from the College Green, and restaurants for dinner and beer with friends and fellow Greeks. (Drinking age for beer was 18 then), and partying the rest of the evening with friends and Fraternity brothers who were older and able to get "hard" stuff. The next day, a drive in my little Triumph TR-3 out to Burr Oak State Park to walk in the woods and take pictures.

What memories. Talk about the perfect traditional college weekend.

The Fall colors in Appalachian Ohio are spectacular and the view from the Press Box over the rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio is fantastic.

Listening to the bells in the Cutler Hall cupola play the Alma Mater while leaves fell gently in the breeze.

Can you see why I was President of the Colorado Chapter of the Ohio University Alumni Association and a Delt division officer for a few years?

I still love the Fall and hope the leaves haven't turned and fallen off the trees in Ohio by the time I go to O.U. Homecoming in about three weeks!

The Aspen in Colorado are beautiful, but they're all "gold." I miss the rest of the colors from the East and Midwest.

Sorry. More than you wanted to know, but it's fun to trip down memory lane once in a while -- especially with memories like those.

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

FOOTBALL

[FeeFee]

Most of the time, the first day of Autumn falls on my birthday.