Yes, Autumn,... That So Sweet Time of Year!!

Raking the leaves high, than jumping in. Every now and then, disgusted when you learn a dog beat you to it. Scary, hunched back cats, jangling skeletons, Bobbing for apples, Rosy cheeks on your friends. Cupcakes in the classroom. And, oh, that lovely moon!! Days gone by when you were permitted to burn the leaves. Making use of the lack ot leaves to climb high into the sturdy elm trees. Candy!! Candy corn, lollipops, pennies and nickels, running home with your precious loot...oh, my. Most everyone with a new fall jacket...pencils, erasers, rulers, and all those intimidating school suppies, covering text books with brown paper supermarket bags. Darkness coming earlier... that marvelous feeling when you jump in your bed, and it is so cold, until your body heat warms it up. Scary movies on TV. A time when families actually ate together at the dinner table. When sleep was never more than five minutes away, once in bed. When the truthes and mythes about our country went uncontested. Smiles at the table, oh, rats, the homework!! Didn't we do enough in school? Walking home with books and friends. A time of innocence, a time of happiness. Oh how sad today's children live in such a relatively drab world, or do they see it that way? But, oh that huge, shiny moon epitimizes it the best. Go there? "Iz U Kra-Z? When Superman and the Mickey Mouse Club were there to enertain you. And all the cowboy shows. But Dad would put on Mitch Miller or Perry Mason, and he came home exactly at 6 PM when Popeye was on. We'd run to greet him, who knew, he might have a treat. Potatoes ever night. Smiles...No bipolar misery. And oh, the beautiful moon!! I would stare at it most every night, so mysterious, so majestic. So Autumn.