Fall is my favorite season, and New England fall is perfection. Crisp, sunny, blue-skied days, cool indigo nights, fresh apples at the farmer’s market, the beginning of a new school year…I love it all.
Here’s my list of what to do this fall:
- Go apple picking (by now a beloved tradition).
- Reread Gaudy Night for my book club. (In progress.)
- Voyager a Montreal to celebrate my 30th birthday.
- Listen to this song from The Fantasticks. (Over and over.)
- Visit Nantucket. (Perhaps some of the tourists have cleared out by now.)
- Spend a weekend in New York (because who doesn’t love New York in the fall?).
- Reread the Harry Potter series again (I always get a hankering for them in the fall).
- Go to a Harvard football game.
- Head down to Texas to see my family and cuddle my nephew.
- Attend author events at the Booksmith and/or the Harvard Book Store.
- Reread Anne of the Island and/or Anne of Windy Poplars. I love going back to school with Anne.
- Start rehearsals with the choir I just joined.
- Celebrate my fourth (!) Turkeypalooza with friends.
- Drink chai, make pumpkin bread, simmer soup on the stove, and revel in all the fall flavors.
(I realize this is a long list. But a girl can dream.)
What’s on your list for this fall?
cakes, tea and dreams 
Love your list! I’m so ready for fall. In Alabama we are just getting some cool mornings, but afternoons are still in the 90s. We’re in that transition between seasons…not really in summer, not really in fall. Tantalizing, really!
Love your list. I love fall in New England too. It’s not nearly as nice in Texas. I just joined a choir too! I needed something new to feel like I was starting school in the fall. I miss school!
Stealing this idea! I love it!
An excellent list for the onset of Autumn.
Trees are just starting to turn here; the hint of more color to come. I love fall, and I love New England in fall. We spend one glorious week in Vermont a few years past, and will always remember it. It was falling into a bowl of candy corn.
Such an awesome list! Celebrating your birthday in Montreal sounds fantastic.
Love this list! Apple picking is so much fun. It’s on my fall list too, for sure – and making mulled cider for the first time. Now I’m inspired to come up with a fall list of my own… oh, and I can’t wait to read about your impressions of Montreal. I used to go from time to time as a kid (it’s the closest major Canadian city to Albany, where I grew up), and it’s absolutely beautiful. I hope you love it too!
I am going to Toronto for a week in October. I may take a few of the Anne books along to read on the trip. I hope to go visit PEI someday.
Visit New England before I die! There you have it. This is my revolving Fall list.