Happy September 1st and first day of met Fall, everybody! I’m looking forward to fading green giving way to the bursting brilliance of the season. I can’t wait to walk through the pumpkin patch on a misty morning and pick out that perfect pumpkin, which will soon flicker a grin at neighborhood trick or treaters one spooky night. I’m also eagerly anticipating that first autumn cold front ushering in the crisp north wind, as falling leaves fly wildly about through the afternoon sky. Shorter days, longer nights, frosty mornings, birds in the air, smoke from a warm fireplace hanging low over the ground, cornstacks, hayrides, pumpkin pie, football, giving thanks for friends and family and all of the abundance with which we’ve been blessed, and the anticipation of a merry season and the colder days that lie just ahead — Fall is finally here. And I love it.