🍂 Drifting Leaves: Autumn Tag 🍂

 Autumn Grace at Shades of Art has tagged me for the Autumn Tag Challenge (how appropriate), and since autumn is in fact my favourite season, I'm quite thrilled :)

The Rules:
1. Download the cover photo and use it for your post2. Acknowledge the person who tagged you3. Tag others and comment on their blog to let them know!4. Slip into autumn vibes


And here are the questions!
1. If autumn isn't your favourite season, what is? And if autumn is your favourite season, why?
Well, it has already been noted that autumn is my favourite season - or rather, one of them. I suppose I love each season when it comes around, but I always get most excited about autumn. It's so cozy and delightful with tea and hot chocolate and blankets and scarves and fuzzy socks and reading by the fireplace and there's nothing else quite like it.
2. What is your favourite thing that you do each autumn?
I love cozy things. We decorate the house (sometimes, usually right before Thanksgiving which is far too late for my taste), I pull out the sweaters and scarves, and I can actually drink tea and hot chocolate without thinking about how it’s the wrong season.

3. What are a couple of your favourite autumn memories?
Something I love every year is getting to see more of my family around Thanksgiving time, and also baking and cooking a lot. It’s just so comforting and cozy to have warm apple pie and pumpkin muffins. Also, especially when it gets cold enough (summer likes to linger around where I live) lighting the fireplace and reading whilst wearing a cloak blanket is a delightful thing.
4. What book most reminds you of the autumn? Movie?
Hmm probably The Hobbit or Anne of Green Gables, both because they are autumn-y and are also best read while drinking tea near the fireplace.

5. What is your favourite drink for the season?
Tea, hot chocolate, pumpkin spice lattes
6. What is one new thing you want to do this autumn?
Despite all my violining and college audition-ing, I really want to have dedicated time to read and write for myself and also spend time with the LORD more consistently. And also drink as much cinnamon tea as I can get my hands on.
7. Do you decorate for the autumn? If so, how soon? If not, why?
Yes, my family does, but as I mentioned earlier, we take our sweet time doing it. By the end of the season, we’ve got pumpkins galore all around our entryway :D
8. What is your favourite way to celebrate Thanksgiving?
Making food. Lots of it. And consuming it in great quantities with family.

9. What colour makes you think most of autumn?
The colour of pumpkins. The colour of leaves slowly dripping to the ground. The colour of the sunset.
10. Type up a list of ten words or names that encapsulate the season of autumn for you.
- pumpkin spice- cinnamon- fuzzy sweaters- warm hugs- scarves- hardcover books- warm chili- hot chocolate- adventure- comfort
And I shall tag…
- The Hopeful Pen at With Joy for the Work- Ruth at A Bend in the Road- Eva at birds, sky, and stars- Iona at Story Blossoms- Olivia at Meanwhile, in Rivendell
And whoever else would like to fill it out!
Soli Deo Gloria,Hannah

    Book Recommendations for Autumn


    cozy comfort books

    • Anne of Green Gables
    • The Hobbit
    • The Chronicles of Narnia


    victorian classics

    • Jane Eyre
    • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    • Little Women
    • Emma


    “I-have-time-to-read-a-Russian-novel”

    • Anna Karenina
    • The Idiot


    mystery

    • The Phantom of the Opera
    • The Murder on the Orient Express


    Au Revoir,
    Hannah

    Happy Birthday, Mr. Shostakovich

        


    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (fondly nicknamed Shosty by most classical musicians) was born on September 25, 1906, and died on August 9, 1975. He was a famous Russian pianist and composer battling the challenges of being an artist in Soviet Russia. He had a complex relationship with the government and Stalin in particular, especially after writing his infamous opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. 

        If you listen to Shostakovich’s music, you’ll notice it’s got an extremely distinct and identifiable style. Atonal, grotesque, mocking, but also beautiful and grand and picturesque. Some of his most famous compositions are: 

    * String Quartet No. 8

    * Symphony No. 5

    * Symphony No. 10

    * Symphony No. 11 (“The Year 1905”)

    * A score for Hamlet

    * Cello Sonata

    (I’ve played the ones in bold)


        Happy birthday to an amazing composer, pianist, one of the founders of modern classical music, and personally one of my favourite composers!


    Пока (that’s goodbye in Russian),
    Hannah

    🍂 Drifting Leaves: Autumn Tag 🍂

     Autumn Grace at Shades of Art  has tagged me for the Autumn Tag Challenge (how appropriate), and since autumn is in fact my favourite seaso...