FALL!

I LOVE fall. Hands down my favorite season. The crispness in the air, the chilly mornings with hot coffee, the disinclination to bundle up completely so that when you go outside you hustle a bit, the atmosphere that college football creates (that I miss so much!) and the coziness of it all.

I'm not sure if it's because it's fall or what but lately I've been feeling pretty great. Or maybe it's been all the recent visitors that I've loved having here. Or the upcoming trip home. Whatever it is, I'm enjoying it. It's another grey, chilly day but since they have just begun I am still in that period where I enjoy them immensely. And maybe it's because I know I can always get in my car and do something that I don't feel so locked up on dreary days anymore.

This weekend JM, LM and I are going to Weltenburg Abbey. There is a little bit of contention as to whether it is the oldest brewery in the world (Weihenstephan Abbey claims the title as well) but it all comes down to the words "oldest continously operational brewery" as Weihenstephan can claim that title but Weltenburg is the oldest brewery based on foundation date (620 A.D. vs 720 A.D.) -- it just had a period of 39 years in the 1800s where it was shut down during the secularization of Bavaria. Weltenburg is on the Danube and it looks so gorgeous, I am excited! And it's only an hour and fifteen minutes away - who could resist!? JM says I'm driving back, but we'll see...

Here's a picture I snapped a few days ago from our balcony:


Fall is good.