Fall: My Favorite Time of Year

[Rick]

Spring is my favorite time of year, as it signifies the end of Winter and Summer is just around the corner. Fall does the opposite. Fall also ushers in the holiday season, which to anyone in the travel industry is a living hell.

[Arianddu]

Too early for us SoCal peeps, fall doesn't start in L.A. until around Christmas.

Hey, for some of us, it's Spring!

[S2M]

They grew up nicely!!!

True, but sold out nicely, as well.....they may be eye candy, but they haven't a lick of talent....

[Deb]

Too early for us SoCal peeps, fall doesn't start in L.A. until around Christmas.

I have to laugh at this! I shared a hotel room with a SoCal gal this weekend and she actually brought longjohns to Providence/Connecticut. She's from San Bernie and I realize it gets real hot there, but dang it wasn't longjohn weather out east this weekend.........you peeps are such wimps. Just kidding........but it felt just like home for me.

[Don]

Too early for us SoCal peeps, fall doesn't start in L.A. until around Christmas.

I have to laugh at this! I shared a hotel room with a SoCal gal this weekend and she actually brought longjohns to Providence/Connecticut. She's from San Bernie and I realize it gets real hot there, but dang it wasn't longjohn weather out east this weekend.........you peeps are such wimps. Just kidding........but it felt just like home for me.

It was over a hundred a few days last week and supposed to be in the nineties tomorrow but the comforters will come out soon, just in case.

[weatherman90]

I hate the fall - it means that in a few months the temperatures are going to be -40 degrees. Fall stinks!

[S2M]

I hate the fall - it means that in a few months the temperatures are going to be -40 degrees. Fall stinks!

Dude, I was stationed at Minot - guarding missle silos. I know what you mean....

[Don]

I hate the fall - it means that in a few months the temperatures are going to be -40 degrees. Fall stinks!

Dude, I was stationed at Minot - guarding missle silos. I know what you mean....

I almost got sent to Grandforks but got an extension at Yokota, two weeks before my PCS date. I was sweating it out big time.

[Melissa]

Would be neat to see changing leaves, here in FL the trees have 2 colors, green and dead, lol.

[weatherman90]

I hate the fall - it means that in a few months the temperatures are going to be -40 degrees. Fall stinks!

Dude, I was stationed at Minot - guarding missle silos. I know what you mean....

I almost got sent to Grandforks but got an extension at Yokota, two weeks before my PCS date. I was sweating it out big time.

Yep - it's cold!

[Saint John]

Favorite time of the year? You need your fucking head examined. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, it's getting colder and the frigid winter cold is right around the corner. You must be a fucking eskimo or something.

[Melissa]

Favorite time of the year? You need your fucking head examined. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, it's getting colder and the frigid winter cold is right around the corner. You must be a fucking eskimo or something.

It's still in the 80's here and only the 70's at night

[Jana]

Fall in Florida is like spring somewhere else. It was really hot today. I was in a bad mood because I had to wear a suit. But it was spring-like this weekend and wonderful. Fall in the mountains or Atlanta, now you're talking.

[Rhiannon]

Fall in the mountains.

Yes. That's what I was born & raised and lived with for 22 years... my 23rd finds me in a place where fall is nothing but a sudden cold snap and me getting really confused thinking it's way later than it actually is. Hooray for being closer to the arctic. No big mountains bursting with fall leaves. No wood smoke from the fireplace smellin' up the house. I still love fall though... makes me all nostalgic and content. I have a feeling that's only because I'm severely unprepared for what I'm about to endure for the next 4 months up here.

[Saint John]

Favorite time of the year? You need your fucking head examined. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, it's getting colder and the frigid winter cold is right around the corner. You must be a fucking eskimo or something.

It's still in the 80's here and only the 70's at night

Do you really want me to respond to this, Mel?

[Saint John]

Fall in the mountains.

Yes. That's what I was born & raised and lived with for 22 years... my 23rd finds me in a place where fall is nothing but a sudden cold snap and me getting really confused thinking it's way later than it actually is. Hooray for being closer to the arctic. No big mountains bursting with fall leaves. No wood smoke from the fireplace smellin' up the house. I still love fall though... makes me all nostalgic and content. I have a feeling that's only because I'm severely unprepared for what I'm about to endure for the next 4 months up here.

Try a snowmobiling trip. I'm planning one.

[Deb]

Fall in the mountains.

Yes. That's what I was born & raised and lived with for 22 years... my 23rd finds me in a place where fall is nothing but a sudden cold snap and me getting really confused thinking it's way later than it actually is. Hooray for being closer to the arctic. No big mountains bursting with fall leaves. No wood smoke from the fireplace smellin' up the house. I still love fall though... makes me all nostalgic and content. I have a feeling that's only because I'm severely unprepared for what I'm about to endure for the next 4 months up here.

Try a snowmobiling trip. I'm planning one.

You'll love it! Haven't done it for years, but it's soooo much fun. Mind you I never drove one, was always the passenger. But safety first, NO drunk snowmobiling.

[Saint John]

You'll love it!

It's so much fucking fun.

Mind you I never drove one, was always the passenger.

You are talking about snowmobiling aren't you?

But safety first, NO drunk snowmobiling.

No comment!!!

[Rhiannon]

Fall in the mountains.

Yes. That's what I was born & raised and lived with for 22 years... my 23rd finds me in a place where fall is nothing but a sudden cold snap and me getting really confused thinking it's way later than it actually is. Hooray for being closer to the arctic. No big mountains bursting with fall leaves. No wood smoke from the fireplace smellin' up the house. I still love fall though... makes me all nostalgic and content. I have a feeling that's only because I'm severely unprepared for what I'm about to endure for the next 4 months up here.

Try a snowmobiling trip. I'm planning one.

I've never been snowmobiling. Actually always wanted to go. We don't get much snow back there for it. Hmm...

[donnaplease]

I encourage anyone to come to the Shenandoah Valley, and the Skyline Drive, around the middle of October. It's sooo beautiful!!!

[Rhiannon]

I encourage anyone to come to the Shenandoah Valley, and the Skyline Drive, around the middle of October. It's sooo beautiful!!!

Shu'up you. Rubbin' it in my face. Go take some pics and send me! I'll bet it's perfect HS football weather through the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge right about now!

[donnaplease]

I encourage anyone to come to the Shenandoah Valley, and the Skyline Drive, around the middle of October. It's sooo beautiful!!!

Shu'up you. Rubbin' it in my face. Go take some pics and send me! I'll bet it's perfect HS football weather through the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge right about now!

PERFECT football weather... not so perfect football season. Started out GREAT, last few games not so much so. Dakota will pass the thousand yard mark this week though, passing & rushing, so he's doing alright.

Leaves aren't really turning yet. Not sure if we've had enough rain to make them as brilliant as they could be, but I'm hoping. I love family pics in the fall. There's this really beautiful place we used to go to on the Massanutten Mountain, an overlook called Storybook Trail. I used to go up there a LOT. However, a few years ago, a psycho took his 4 year old daughter up there, where he slashed her throat and his own with a steak knife. She died, he did not. Well, not that night, anyway. He got the needle strapped to his arm a few years later, thank God. Another one of those cases where 'if I can't have you, no one will'. Hell cannot burn hot enough for someone like that. Anyway, I drive past that overlook every day on my way to work, but I haven't been able to go there since. Fucker.

[Voyager]

Favorite time of the year? You need your fucking head examined. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, it's getting colder and the frigid winter cold is right around the corner. You must be a fucking eskimo or something.

I don't like any of that stuff. I just like Fall weather. This is about the only time of year in Illinois that we have Santa Monica weather for about a month (60's - 70's and low humidity). Otherwise it's hot, humid, buggy, and nasty in the summer and cold, snowy, and slushy in the winter. As soon as November hits, it sucks until March.

[Rhiannon]

PERFECT football weather... not so perfect football season. Started out GREAT, last few games not so much so. Dakota will pass the thousand yard mark this week though, passing & rushing, so he's doing alright.

Congrats to Dakota though! If you think to, my Mom doesn't watch the news, and my Dad is in NC, if you get WDBJ 7 and happen to catch Friday Football Extra, check and see how my alma mater (the Cavaliers of Carroll County High! Woo!) is doing.

Leaves aren't really turning yet. Not sure if we've had enough rain to make them as brilliant as they could be, but I'm hoping. I love family pics in the fall. There's this really beautiful place we used to go to on the Massanutten Mountain, an overlook called Storybook Trail. I used to go up there a LOT. However, a few years ago, a psycho took his 4 year old daughter up there, where he slashed her throat and his own with a steak knife. She died, he did not. Well, not that night, anyway. He got the needle strapped to his arm a few years later, thank God. Another one of those cases where 'if I can't have you, no one will'. Hell cannot burn hot enough for someone like that. Anyway, I drive past that overlook every day on my way to work, but I haven't been able to go there since. Fucker.

Go down the parkway to just past the Cumberland Gap... it's called Fox Hunter's Paradise. My favorite place on earth. Back off the road, a little foottrail off to an overlook of the piedmont, and it is just breathtaking! Here's a couple I took in August of last year...

[TRAGChick]

Y'know....I bitch and complain about Patheticut...I mean, Connecti$#!T....I mean, CONNECTICUT...

But hey....We get ALL FOUR SEASONS here...

....and when Seasons like Spring & Summer come along....after CT WINTERS....

Believe you-ME.....the Fall....which, BTW, stays in the 70s in Early October which btw was my birthday... Oct. 4th...

....WE FREAKIN' APPRECIATE IT!

[Uno_up]

I encourage anyone to come to the Shenandoah Valley, and the Skyline Drive, around the middle of October. It's sooo beautiful!!!

I agree...I miss the SW Virginia leg of the trips down I-81S over to Blacksburg where my son graduated in '07. Beautiful country.

[Since 78]

Y'know....I bitch and complain about Patheticut...I mean, Connecti$#!T....I mean, CONNECTICUT...

But hey....We get ALL FOUR SEASONS here...

....and when Seasons like Spring & Summer come along....after CT WINTERS....

Believe you-ME.....the Fall....which, BTW, stays in the 70s in Early October which btw was my birthday... Oct. 4th...

....WE FREAKIN' APPRECIATE IT!

Missed Your Birthday? It didn't show up on Myspace

Well, Happy Birthday Nora!!!

[donnaplease]

I encourage anyone to come to the Shenandoah Valley, and the Skyline Drive, around the middle of October. It's sooo beautiful!!!

I agree...I miss the SW Virginia leg of the trips down I-81S over to Blacksburg where my son graduated in '07. Beautiful country.

I'm about 15 minutes from I-81 at New Market (famous Civil War battlefield here). It's great.

[Jana]

You guys are killing me with the beautiful descriptions of the mountains and valleys and the photos. Being in the mountains soothes my soul literally. When I lived in Atlanta, it was so easy to take little road trips to North Carolina and so on.

Florida just does not have any seasons. We're in shorts in December. I can't handle the north. I considered Atlanta the north during their short winter. It was so cold. That's how unaccustomed I was to it. But the fall and spring in Atlanta was stunning. Summer not so much in Atlanta. It was hot and humid and pine trees. In the summer, I missed Florida and the palm trees and beaches and lakes.

[Rhiannon]

When I lived in Atlanta, it was so easy to take little road trips to North Carolina and so on.

Where abouts in NC?? I'm from VA, butI lived a big portion of my life around Charlotte-Hickory-Winston Salem... I went to college at a little mountain cove called Montreat. Just 15 minutes east of Asheville along the Swananoa, at the foot of Mt. Mitchell and Black Mountain. This time a few years back I was hiking with my friends to the top of Lookout and Greybeard every other day or so... fall there was amazing!

I also miss Tennessee's Smoky Mtns... Gatlinburg and Cades Cove especially. *sigh*... I may have to take a road trip soon.