meet a tree

There’s a commercial for a large toy company that is getting some people upset. It’s a bus full of children on a field trip. They are on a “Meet the Trees Foundation” tour. And, as the name says, they are supposed to meet trees!

Which, to me, sounds awesome! The kids on the bus are not so excited. They are bored. UNTIL the bus driver says that they are going to a toy store!

Finally, the kids are happy. But kids, as the complainers say, should love toys and trees! Just like me! I love trees!

Especially during autumnfall! It may sound a little sentimental, but I was driving around everywhere this weekend and saw tons of amazing colors from the trees.

One section of road had trees that were all a dark red color. Then another area had a bunch of light green/yellow leaves. It was like a lemon-lime tree!

It did not taste like Sprite, though. Trust me. It tasted more like…um…tree, I guess.

OH! You know what else is cool?! When I see leaves just falling! It's totally nonchalant! It’s no big deal to them. It’s like, “I think I’ll just let go of the tree and float down to the ground…whatevs…”

It’s like a metaphor about life. I have no idea what the metaphor is, but it’s really, really deep.

I also love driving down a road that has a lot of leaves on the ground and in my rearview mirror I see them fly up behind me. It makes me feel like I’m going super-fast! Even though I’m on a 25 mph road! (I go 27 mph to make the leaves go crazy! Shh...don't tell the authorities.)

Is it bad that kids would rather play with toys than learn about trees? I don’t know. Maybe they should make Teenage Mutant Ninja Leaves. That might get kids more interested in foliage.

It would also make for an awesome cartoon that I will watch every day.

I’m off to see if the brown leaves taste like chocolate.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

fall into autumn

It's that wonderful time of year when the air gets cool, the leaves change color, and we make everything all gourdy.

That's right! It's Fall! Or Autumn! Or...wait...it's both!

That's the problem we have with this season. It has two names. So some people decided to do some research on it. And pretty much couldn't come up with a good answer why.

After reading almost the whole article one time, there was no clear answer why the "cool down" season has two names! I even considered reading the article again, but got distracted by a candy corn and decided against it.

Why not just keep the two names? Nothing wrong with that! A season so nice, we named it twice!

BUT! I have an even more eleganter solution! A combination of names to make it sound even better!

Autumnfall!

No more confusing conversations about this time of year anymore!

"It's a beautiful fall!"

"Who fell?! That's awful to say it was beautiful! I guess if somebody DID fall, it's nice that they got to fall during this beautiful autumn."

"What's an oddum? Is that some sort of banana?"

Golly...I can't COUNT how many times I've had that conversation! (Keep in mind, I don't know how to count.)

With the brand new autumnfall, everybody will always know what you're talking about and there will be fewer problems with bananas.

Don't even get me STARTED on banana problems!

I'm off to get my autumfall gourds.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj