I know fall officially started last month, but it really hasn't felt like fall until, well, about right now. The cooler weather has finally come! And so has the beautiful color change in all the leaves on the trees.
Less than ten minutes away from where I live there is a neat place called Apple Hill. If fall was a place you could go and visit it would be this place. You can go and enjoy beautiful vista's while you munch on delicious apple pastries, and, my favorite, caramel apples!
Since we live so close to this wonderful place I'm sad to say we hardly ever visit. But today we packed a picnic lunch spent a lovely afternoon at one of the Apple Hill Farms. As we were walking around looking at all the craft booths I started picking up all the pretty leaves I spotted on the ground. Soon I had a nice collection of fall leaves in many beautiful shades of yellow, red and orange. An idea popped into my head and I took my marker and wrote little notes on each of the leaves I collected.
I wrote things like "Smile", and "you are loved", and "happy fall". I also made a leaf pun; "I be-leaf in you".
Next was the fun part. As we were walking around I kept my eye's peeled for the perfect spot to place each leaf. I looked for a spots that were out of the way enough so the leaves would not be stepped on, but I also didn't want the leaves to be hidden.
Before long my hands were empty and each leaf found a new home. My sister even put one leaf inside one of the apple crates in the store.
I don't know if anyone will find these leaves, or if the wind will claim them. Maybe they will get trampled on and forgotten. But I hope that these leaves at least make one person smile.
It was so much fun spreading love around in this unique way! My sister and I have decided to do this again on our next outing to Apple Hill.
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