I heart Pennsylvania!

[Divernan]

Serious topics aside, I just had a lovely, late summer morning driving through sun-dappled Pennsylvania woods - stopped at a country market for the last of the homegrown summer corn & fine fresh produce - then a stop at a nursery to buy 40 - count 'em - 40 winter hardy mums - and a butcher shop for some perfect center cut, stuffed pork chops (sorry, vegetarian relatives) for Sunday dinner.

My Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors settled in Pennsylvania back in 1642, and their descendants - all farmers, gradually moved west through the generations. I lived in the Midwest (Chicago) the East Coast (Baltimore/Washington D.C., Florida and the West Coast (Los Angeles & Sacramento) before moving to southwest PA back in 1969. I harbor no fantasies about the grass being greener or the skies bluer, etc., anywhere else.

Yet the beauty of Pennsylvania remains fresh and exhilirating to me even after some 45 years.

And now we're headed into my favorite season, with the glorious fall foliage.

Wishing all of my fellow Keystone Staters a beautiful autumn.

Peace!

[femmocrat]

1. Same to you, Divernan!

Autumn in PA is magical!

[livetohike]

2. Moved back home to PA from southern California in 2007. We really missed the trees and rivers and

creeks. Let's not tell too many people how beautiful it is though. They may want to move here too. LOL.

[Freddie]

3. I've never lived anywhere else

and don't want to. Lived in Philly burbs (now and vast majority of time), Philly and central PA, with family in Harrisburg area and Reading. We have beauty, seasons, diversity, fascinating history and local culture. Certainly not perfect but we now have a great Governor too. And Temple beat Penn State for the 1st time in 74 years! (Mixed family, I'm a Temple grad and my son a PSU grad).

[Lugnut]

4. I've been here for 70 years.

The Pocono mountains offer a celebration of all four seasons.