From the Maurer's With Love: Favorite Season: FALL!

I would definitely have to say that the thing we miss most about living on the east coast, aside from family and friends, is fall. Even though fall is so very short, there is nothing like seeing the beautiful changing leaves and smelling that crisp autumn air! Oh and then there is the pumpkin flavored everything, which I'm not a huge fan of. Although, the Starbucks pumpkin spiced lattes are pretty tasty. And the apple festivals, pumpkin patches, hay rides, and on and on it goes. Here in San Diego, the southern most point in California, fall doesn't really exist. But, driving just northeast of here about an hour and a half you find the quaint little historic gold mining town of Julian! It's where the gold rush was first born. It's the closest we could get to feeling like fall in SoCal. No beautifully colored leaves, but we were able to go apple and pumpkin picking! Then of course we had to carve our pumpkin. We got pretty creative this year. Take a look!