Chastin Martel
Fall is the perfect season to me. It has always appealed to me because of the pretty leaf colours and crisp, cool air.
Back when I was a kid, I just thought of it as another season. I never really appreciated fall until I was in my teen years.
My earliest memory of fall is when I was about seven years old; it was Halloween and I had just got home from trick-or-treating. I was looking out the window and I noticed the trees looked like they were dead (they were not dead). I then asked my stepmother, “Why do the leaves look like that?”
She replied, “It’s fall; the leaves change colour.”
Of course, I didn’t really think much of fall after that!
Cut to age 17 and I started to appreciate the beauty of fall a little bit more. It was 2020 at the time and that year, the leaves were just so beautiful in Slave Lake.
Maybe because of the calm state of the entire world at the time but maybe it was just nature taking its course. The cool crisp air, the pretty leaves blowing in the wind and a hot beverage in your hand while you take a walk outside; it sounds perfect. Then come home to a slow-cooked chili in the crock pot.
I don’t understand the hype surrounding pumpkin spice beverages. It’s just a beverage with spice; nothing special there. Pumpkin spice beverages didn’t seem to be popular until 2019 as far as I can remember; they were definitely not well known when I was growing up.
The one thing about fall that made me like it more was photography. Seeing all the different leaves in portrait photography made me like the season more.
I believe fall in 2018 was what inspired my photography hobby. Photographing my dog with the beautiful leaves in the background was so majestic to me.
I stopped caring for Halloween around age 14. Going trick-or-treating at that age didn’t seem that cool and I just felt too old. I always wondered why it was weird for teenagers to go trick-or-treating; it’s not harming anyone. But it is for youth, and that is most fair.
The art of dressing up on Halloween is still very intact. I still like dressing up for Halloween events. To me, dressing up for Halloween doesn’t have a cut-off age.
The leaves are what got me to appreciate the fall season more and now, I always try my best to take advantage of the season because it’s always so short. I wish it would last as long as winter.
The fall season in Slave Lake is usually beautiful but I always wondered what it would be like to experience fall in Switzerland. It sounds more magical over there.
Definitely no pumpkin spice beverages over there but who really knows, maybe they’re obsessed with those beverages as well.
If only fall could be a bit longer; can that happen? Anything is possible in this day and age.