I love the changing of all seasons for they bring new holidays, beauties of nature although autumn is my very favorite time of year. The deep colors of browns and the vivid reds and golden yellow seen in the leaves and fall fruits and vegetables created an excitement of the joys to be shared in the season.

The days become shorter as the nights grow longer; giving me more time to snuggle in bed, enjoy a warm fire and silly as it might sound, take a walk in the nighttime. When I walk around and see lights on in houses I imagine the lives of the people inside them. Are you sitting happily around a dinning room table exchanging life stories, tales of adventurous vacations? The smells in the air of firewood burning and the increasing crispness of the air surrounding me helps my steps to quicken, rounding the corner I look forward to being home, a cuppa (tea) and my unfinished novel.  Pulling my coat tighter I move along the street, passed a barking dog and step back as a cat skids in front of me. The cool night gives way to a clear sky where a gibbous moon promises to round out in a week to an autumn full moon - a boasting light in a black sky.  This is a sacred time to me, a magical energy of ghosts, and witches and how knows what?  A time to cackle - and then of course there's Halloween's on the horizon. Yipee.

In my novel,The Skye in June, my main character, June crawls out her bedroom window at midnight to dance with the moon on a starry night.