I LOVE THE FALL TIME OF YEAR

I probably like the fall season the most, but let me clarify. Fall, to me, is actually three distinct segments - early fall (or what I would refer to as summer mild), high fall (that picture perfect period when the trees are in their full color mode, the days are warm and sunny, evenings cool and the imagination is stirred by the greatest of fall events - the Saturday afternoon college football game), and finally ending fall (when the leaves are nearly all down, its cool and damp and the daylight is gone by 6:30). I don't especially like the later - its the sign that winter is bearing down. By that's the cycle here in the USA midwest and in the northeast, where i'm originally from.
As a gardener, fall generally means a few added chores - putting away the patio furniture, cleaning out the flower beds, and assisting the garden in preparing for the long winter nap, and finishing up those summer projects that somehow never got finished.
Best of all, as the ending fall ascends upon us I'm reminded that spring and next summer will soon be with us again bringing a return of nature's delights and sights and a garden of dreams.