-
Quick Tour
Connect. Share. Learn.Welcome to ActiveRain, the #1 social community for real estate professionals.- Explore the world's largest storehouse of real estate knowledge
- Access free training on ActiveRain University
- Share the experience of life in the real estate industry
- Grow your business through real estate blogging
- Blogs
-
Resources
Product Reviews Curious as to what others in your profession think about a certain product or tool? AR's community takes the time to leave honest and transparent reviews of their experiences so you can be a bit wiser about your purchase.
- Broken down by categories and subcategories for easy finds
- Get an unfiltered look at what real users are saying
- Leave a review yourself for others to benefit from
- Add new products as you use them and gain points for doing so
|
;)
;)
;)
Find WA real estate agents and Seattle real estate on ActiveRain.
Disclaimer: ActiveRain Corp. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. ActiveRain Corp. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, that are written by the members of this community.
© 2013 ActiveRain Corp. All Rights Reserved
17 Comments on Up and at 'em, Rise and Shine!
Rene: We already have that little nip in the air foretelling of fall. Fall was always harvest time of anything we grew in the garden which, when I was small, made up a subtandial part of our food supply for the family. Now I keep a few pots of strawberries, some blueberry bushes, raspberries and, yum, wild blackberries. The apple trees at my neighbors are getting ripe and the deer and bears come down from the mountain to pick them. We have an agreement, you don't touch my garden (surrounded by a very high fence) and I won't get any apples. I love fall, in my brokerage, it's like another big push in marketing coming up.
Hella: Thanks! We had an apple & cherry tree too. All kinds of critters came across the street from the woods to eat the fruit, no bears though, but deer. Our yard was small but my grandfather had a huge garden and kept us in great supply. I love fall also, and I always feel a surge for action!
Hi Nancy... thanks! Great memories to be sure and the times (probably just because we were kids) was simpler to be sure.
I love this time of year, too, and "back to school" time does feel like a new beginning, very nostalgic. In addition to having two school age kids, I teach part time so I still look at the start of the school year as the start of the year. Happy fall to you!
Gretchen
Rene' - This is a wonderfully written piece, with so much truth about reflection about the seasons. I find the more I shuffle through life, the clearer the reflection, and appreciation of the changing color of leaves. Our days really are a calendar existing on the tree of life! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend!
Rene...
Great memories. You have such a gift for writing and as you know, you and I share a fondness for the past and the way thing were!
Featured in the Group "Whacked!!!
Hi Gretchen: Me too, there's alot about September that is like the beginning of the year. I taught for many years, so I guess it's pretty ground into my being.
Myrl: Thank you for the kind compliment. Something happened to me a short while back. Can't put my finger on it exactly, but I know when it happened that Friday evening. My whole perspective of life and the world around me made a shift and it was instant. Since then my thoughts and stream of conciousness are quite different, and they focus on creative things that have a lot less bullshit attached.
John: Ditto, Dad said it once!
Richard: We do share a fondness for the past. And, like you we honor it, not dwell in it. Thank you kindly for the feature!
Hope all of you are having a wonderful Labor Day weekend.... Enjoy!
Rene, I love the late August-September coolness in the air that is the forerunner of fall. Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the colors and changes that take place. And of course football!
Such vivid memories of childhood....I've found now that I have young children in school, I too find myself missing those summer days when morning routines were easier and less hurried, boys baseball games and my girls gymnastics classes. Great summer memories
Back to school sales shout and the school bell can ring, I can even get stuck behind a slowly moving bus on the way to work but nothing says fall to me until I feel the crisp cool air, the leaves start to turn, and then one evening we start the first fire of the season in our fireplace. Then it is truly autumn.
Debbie: Me too, I love fall. I love the wonderful kaleidoscope of colors before the muted tones of winter.
Brian: Thanks... And like me, you wake up one day and the kids are now through school themselves, and yet the pull of fall is there.
Barbie: Ah yes, the first fire in the fireplace! And the wood pile is full and stacked. I love that walk in the late afternoon or evening and smelling the smoke from a neighbors fireplace, feeling the cool air, mixed with the smell of fallen leaves... like the smell of coffee and bacon in the morning!
Rene, how beautifully expressed! Sometimes I wish life was like that again, simple, uncomplicated and fun!! We didn't have cell phones or computers, we played in the street and had a blast. Thanks for the nostalgic nod!! I love fall too, it is a treat after the long hot humid summer. Thank you for sharing!
Amada: Thank you! Without all the technology you wonder how we even survived :O) I think we spent more time gazing at the stars instead of staring into screens. :O)
Rene, Your post takes me back to a simpler time when a little black composition book and a new box of crayons brought a year of new possibilities. I find myself walking down the school supplies shelves even though I no longer have young children to buy for. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Hi Maureen... Thanks, that's ironic, I usually take a stroll through the school supply section at Fred Meyer's on my way to the groceries and my kids are all grown up! Thanks again for being at the AR Meetup. It was great to meet you.