Fall is my favorite season

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Fall is my favorite season, for so many different reasons. I know some people find it depressing because everything is dying around us, but I love the colors of the leaves, I love the fall festivals, the pumpkin everything, apples, Halloween, and basically everything that comes along with it. I love that the weather gets a little colder after a hot summer, although anymore our falls don't seem to last more than a couple of weeks. Usually it just goes from summer to winter here. Regardless, I love this time of year. I have always loved rain too. I love walking in the rain. I feel like the world becomes a little calmer. I feel like the rain kind of washes away some of the old and brings in the new, I know it doesn't, but it just makes everything different. As a person with anxiety rain relaxes me, and that's not something I get very often. I remember as a kid I used to sit by the window with a book and just listen as the rain hit the roof. It's more difficult to hear rain in our apartment since we live on the bottom floor. Occasionally I'll open the patio door so I can hear it, or I'll sit out on the patio. A fall rain is one of the best feelings for me. I can see the leaves and the rain and everything just seems better. It reminds me of my childhood and the way we used to have bonfires in the fall. We'd rake leaves and jump in them. I am often sad my son has never gotten to experience the real feel of fall, because we do live in an apartment. There are still other fall experiences I share with him though. I love dressing my son up and taking him trick or treating. We get a pumpkin, and sometimes we carve it. My son's birthday is in November, so he has a fall birthday, and we do special things with him on his birthday, usually a week after his birthday is Thanksgiving. We stay busy from September on, but October is when things usually get hectic. I love Halloween parties, and finding the perfect costume for my son, and sometimes my boyfriend. I rarely dress up, because there's never much in my size, and I'm not super creative. I look forward to our arts festival in town come September, and the little festival the historical society has here in October. They have an old home that used to be an insane asylum, and they do tours and things. I love drinking hot and cold cider, and eating caramel apples and pumpkin pie. I think I love just about everything about fall. What's your favorite thing about fall?