i wonder......

you know when i was a little girl and i'd be outside in the fall i would step on acorns and squash them. i liked the hear them "crack" under my feet.
yesterday we went out for a walk. we had a cool front come in and it was 71 degrees all day and it was nice!! and i found myself hopping along the side walk stepping on acorns.did you know that most of the time the green ones "crack" and the brown ones "squish" unless it's just changed from green to brown then it kind of "snaps".


i woke up this morning and looked outside. it's overcast and breezy. a nice chilly 61degrees! i threw open the windows and made the coffee and thought to myself "IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS! today would be a great day to make hot cocoa and watch Christmas movies and burn Christmas/winter scented candles!" (forget halloween and thanksgiving! i always want to go straight to Christmas at the first signs of fall!)

speaking of the first sign of fall:
on our walk yesterday there were leaves everywhere! falling out of trees! blowing down the street. rustling with the wind.
and then of course the acorns on the ground. that's always a dead giveaway.

Halloween:
i hate it. never have been much of a fan of it, but living here makes it worse. the folks in this neighborhood decorate for Halloween just like it is the night of the living dead. seriously!
i have always put out a pumpkin on the porch and such - and if i were going to decorate it would put out like a friendly scarecrow and nice looking ghost and maybe carve a few happy pumpkins.
there are ppl over here who hang dead bodies out their trees. some of the scary stuff doesn't bother me. like the skeletons and some of the witches - but dead bodies? that is just overdoing it! totally gives me goosebumps.
there's a house on the street behind us that i won't even walk by without crossing the street. there is a head separated from a body on the roof, 4 dead bodies hanging in the trees -some upside down and some by a noose- and one of which hangs over the sidewalk so you have to walk under it to pass by. it's just creepy. i think halloween should be, well, not scary. of course i don't like to be scared anyway. i just wish that folks decorated more tastefully for it. some of the folks around here outshine their christmas decorations with what they do for halloween. that is disappointing. i remember touring the neighborhood right after we moved in to see if folks went all out for christmas like they did halloween. some did better. some didn't even put anything up at all. then again the street behind us is always decorated the WORST for halloween and the BEST for christmas out of the whole subdivision -maybe they have a contest i don't know about. still, i wish folks put out friendly fun decorations for halloween.

on a much more uplifting note i will leave you with this story:

a gift:
have you heard that song "i saw God today" by George Strait? it's all about the little gifts that God gives us everyday to show us "I'm still here. I will always be here" . like when you see a flower growing up out of the middle of the sidewalk. the birth of a new born baby....things like that.
my mother came to visit one day when i had a dr's appt. not to long ago. we went for a walk that morning. and i see up ahead a sparkly hair comb. it looked like a butterfly covered in dozens of shiny jewels.it was just there on the sidewalk -glittering brightly. i stopped for a closer to look.
it took me several seconds of peering down at it before i realized what it was.
"mom look at this!" i said as she had wandered past me some. she comes back and looks down at the pretty comb with me.
"IT'S A LEAF!" i exclaimed!
one of those giant leaves - a perfect shaped fall leaf -like maybe the leaf from the sycamore tree - i don't know that we have those around here but it didn't look like an oak leaf.i googled tree leaves and that was the closest i could come to it was a sycamore tree leaf.
anyway it was covered in giant spots of dew! the whole thing! it glittered brilliantly under the morning sun! i honestly felt like i had been given a gift. stumbled across a jewel that had fallen out of someone's pocket.
i believe that God was saying hello to me that day.
i was completely awed. stunned to silence.