Changing colors, dropping temperatures, pumpkin spice lattes: do these mainstays of Fall fill your heart with warmth — or with dread?

The beautiful serene pictured above is a great representation of the kind of autumn I’m accusation to in the Northeast of the US. The color change from summer green to exploding vibrant colorful oranges, browns, and yellows is natures signal that winter is not far behind.

But I no longer live in that part of the country where this time of the year would bring me to planting spring bulbs, flowers, checking the leaf blower, purchasing about 200 large lawn leaf bags, and maybe getting a new leaf rake. I would pay someone to just cut the grass and move the leaves to a place that I would collect 50-80 of bags of leaves every two weeks from Oct to Thanksgiving with the last leaf collection in the spring. Oh, yeah…