Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand

Today as I made myself get outside and take a walk this morning, I realized something. I have realized it before, but this morning it was like the floodgates had opened (what really are those floodgates everyone always talks about?) Nashville is perfect in the fall. Every time I walk outside it is picturesque, the weather is perfect and the leaves are starting to change into bright beautiful shades of orange. Absolutely perfect, I love to breathe it all in. There's this clean rustic feeling that feels my soul, if that makes any since. I mean when I smell the smell of fall, I think about the start of something new (not high school musical kind) and fresh. But I also have this feeling, of old historicness. I remember the many lives that have walked these paths many years before me. hmmm maybe that's why everyone always has homecoming's in the fall? Fall makes me think of the warm rusticness found behind my grandparents shed. The young youthful spirit up in our tree house in owens cross roads, Alabama. It makes me think of all the hundreds of fall festivals that I have been to, and the hundreds that I had to work at. Making humongous leave piles, then getting squished completely inside the pile after your brothers jumped on top of you and the leaves. I love fall, and I'm so glad I get to experience it here before I leave. I don't know if they have a fall like we do here, I'm guessing they don't but i could be wrong. But getting to enjoy another amazing fall in Nashville = Priceless

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karye said…
Ems I'm so glad we're friends. I love fall, in fact it's like a brother to me we're so close. lol. I'm so glad I get to spend time with you before you leave on a jet plane...haha. pun intended. I love you friend and I'll think about you every fall now. (and every so often in between too :)
October 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM
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