Where has this summer gone to? It has just flown by! Today it is officially over, as fall for 2013 begins in the Northern Hemisphere on September 22, 4:44 P.M. EDT. According to internet sources; The word equinox comes from the Latin words for “equal night.” The fall and spring equinoxes are the only days of the year in which the Sun crosses the celestial equator.

From here on out, the temperatures begin to drop and the days start to get shorter than the nights. “It is the summer’s great last heat, It is the fall’s first chill: They meet” Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 

This Charlie Harper canvas “Octobermania” sure makes me think of fall. What a great time of the year! First of all it is playoff baseball and World Series…the temperatures are cooler and soon it will be time to get your sweaters out of the mothballs.

Even Mooch is noticing in today’s paper that fall is here! That is the one small, small, small…did I say small? downfall about living in America’s finest city, is that we don’t get the beautiful color change of the leaves like the Northeast.

I then start to think about Halloween, a holiday that I love! I think that I now have more decorations for Halloween that Christmas…and I will save that thought for another day.

I think of Mr. Crow, that dapper Halloween crow by Melissa Shirley that I stitched a few  years ago for Aristea. Threads and stitches selected by Wendy Harwood & Laura Taylor. He has a soft spot in my heart every time I see him!

I got to vist with Mr. Crow a few weeks ago while at Aristea.

After Halloween the nights are getting longer and with cooler temperatures…

it is time to spend it in the kitchen. Isn’t this Gourmet Collage by Lani just wonderful? I am not sure what I want to do first…stitch or cook?