Autumn = pure joy

 Every fall we like to drive up to the mountains to soak up its beauty.  It is hard getting the timing just right - too early and everything is still green (which is still breathtakingly beautiful), and too late means everything is brown and the trees are bare.  Many times the beautiful oranges, reds, and yellows last only a week or two in the mountains before a storm comes through and blows all the leaves away. This year we made PERFECT timing.  Since living in Utah I don't think we have seen a more beautiful Autumn.  This was absolutely heaven for me. Mountains are my temple.  Mother Earth is my spiritual guide.  Nature fills my soul with so much happiness and joy.  I believe we all need to step away from our concrete cities, phones that consume our lives, and daily stresses of work and school and just breath in the pure mountain air. We were made from the dirt beneath our feet and need to reconnect from whence we came once in a while.  I'm so thankful to live on a planet with such beautiful Autumns!