It was a bright sunny beautiful autumn day with a slight cool breeze that was flinging all the beautiful multicolored leaves through out the air. On that fall day and many others like it when I was just a young boy my two older brothers and my younger sister along with myself would go outside to our huge backyard that was full of trees with tons of color changing leaves falling down to cover the once green grass to have the time of our innocent lives. That was about the only time we actually did any type of yard work as we would rake the whole yard and pile up all the leaves to a couple of huge piles were we would run, slide, jump, and push each other for hours while being completely oblivious to any and all things except the beautiful nature all around us and the loved we shared for one another while simply playing in such a great setting.
As much fun as that was it does not even come close to what I feel now as an adult as I walk through the park kicking up all the leaves that only a lovely fall afternoon could possibly bring as I walk with my lovely wife around the beautiful trees and scenery just enjoying the moment. As we walk in the park around the playground our four wonderful and absolutely amazing kids are playing in the leaves outside just enjoying nature to the fullest as well as the finer and simpler things in life exactly like when my siblings and I used to do it all those years ago. It's funny how life repeats it's self I truly believe nature is an absolutely wonderful and amazing thing that should be shared and enjoyed by everyone. It is just simply astonishing how such simple things in a great setting in nature can put so many smiles on faces and warm found memories in our hearts.
I have not actually realized how much I love fall until this year. I don't know what it was, but it just suddenly hit me that fall is my favorite season. The weather, the scenery, the food, it all adds up to the most perfect time of the year. I wouldn't know what I would do if I ended up moving down south where the change from summer to fall is much more subtle and doesn't have the aspects I have experienced that actually make it "fall". Oh to be a kid again! I was at a tailgate the other weekend where the kids kept themselves entertained for about 4 hours with a pile of leaves. The simplest things in life we often forget about, but could not have it any other way.
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