Autumn Leaves

The weather has been wavering between mid autumn and high summer for a couple of months now. Last week, however, the Autumnal Equinox made the seasonal change official, and it was imperative to take notice. It was time for our annual tradition of making leaf crowns!

There aren't many trees around our apartments, and what few there were have already lost their leaves completely, or hadn't even started to turn. The need for leaves was the perfect excuse for a long excursion about the neighborhood. Leaves were collected, nature inspected, and a passing dragon was kind enough to offer us a lift.

Once we returned from our roving and rambling, we sorted out the leaves and did our best to preserve some of them. Leaves we'd collected at the start of the day were already starting to dry out, so we got right to work. While there are more effective ways of preserving leaves, they take more time than we wanted, so this year we kept it simple and waxed our leaves by ironing them between sheets of waxed paper.

The next day Vance and I peeled the leaves off of the paper and glued them onto simple paper circlets to make our crowns.

Edward didn't want to take the time to make one himself, but he was happy to wear the one we made for him.

The remaining leaves were either strewn about in a festive fashion or added to our nature table.

How do you celebrate the changing seasons?