Weekend Looming

Our weather has been fantastic for October.  So we, in hope of a good Sunday, pulled steaks from the freezer yesterday to defrost.  If all is well and the weather cooperates, we'll grill those steaks for dinner on Sunday.  I'm already looking forward to it although I always put on a pound or so when I eat beef.  I eat beef rarely, usually only once every two weeks or so, so I don't go overboard on my beef intake. 

Tad Bowman took this beautiful picture
of Aspen trees.

This is the kind of autumn that I dream about in other years.  We've had perfect weather for the trees to turn spectacular colors.  Driving to and from work daily, I see so many instances of gold and russet leaves.  It's just stunning.  Autumn is my favorite season - the harvest is in, people are settling in for the upcoming winter season, and we get the last, glorious clothing of the seasons in the varied colors - from deepest olive green to scarlet red.  We don't get the fields of gold that the aspen trees gave me while I was growing up in Colorado, but we get the reds that I always wanted from our maple trees and sumac bushes. 

Just look at these glorious colors that
the maple trees give us in the fall. 
I love these colors!

I find that my art and my life are both influenced by color, and the autumn colors are the colors that I consistently choose for my clothing and my art.  Although I try to break through the boxes every once in a while and use pastel, spring colors or the rich full bright colors of summer, or even the muted neutrals of the winter, I always come back to the autumn pallette and those that I love the most.  What colors do you find yourself using time and again for your artwork?  What season inspires you the most?  Make something this weekend to celebrate the changes of season that make our lives rich.