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The weather right now is glorious. Cool, overcast (but not rainy!), and blustery. I ate my lunch sitting at one of the tables outside the cafeteria that overlooks the little man-made pond on our section of the corporate campus. Perfect, perfect weather, especially for looking up from re-reading Something Wicked This Way Comes in time to see brilliant red leaves blowing by. After lunch, I went for a quick walk around the campus park, and collected a handful of red & gold leaves. I'm going to put them on the little scrap of wall next to my desk.

There is a particular scent I associate with this time of year, and I've searched endlessly and without success to find a perfume that captures it. It smells like falling leaves, damp earth, rain, and blackberries. I notice it whenever I walk outside (except in urban areas, of course), even if there are no blackberry bushes nearby. I noticed it while on my walk just a few minutes ago, and there are no blackberry bushes on this part of the office park. As much as I know my One True Perfume is sugary and makes me smell like a very expensive box of chocolates, there are times I wish I could smell like autumn.

In my perfect world, this is what the weather is like all the time. With maybe a week or so of sunny, brisk days, and one weekend of snow. But mostly, it would just be perpetual, beautiful autumn.