hello autumn

(image credit Les feuille mortes)

Hello Autumn. Let's be friends.

Please don't be too cold, too fast. Ease us into it. Please wait to rain heavily when I am already inside. If I have just done my fringe, please don't blow it all about. You are my favourite season, so play nice and I will shuffle through the fallen leaves, run through the rain and your windy gales can play with my hair. I will sit in the sun, plant cabbage seeds, I will knit something warm for winter, curl up with more books. I will savour bare feet for a few more months and try to resist bakery goods with hot chocolate until you have passed.