autumn

Someone told me last year that "autumn" was a more British word and "fall" a more American one. Is that right? And how about Australia, Canada, etc.? I like both words. Autumn, because it is just beautiful, and fall, because it's about leaves falling down. In Czech, there is this word "Listopad", which means "November", but which literally means "fall of the leaves" ("list" means a leaf, "pad" is the root of the verb that means "to fall"). Actually, most names of months in Czech are descriptive... is there a name for such words? Like, October is "říjen", which has to do with the word for the color orange/red (as in "red hair"). Or, May is "květen", which has to do with the word that means "flower". Do I still need to explain my love for this language?

But let me come back to autumn. We don't really have one where I live. Nor do we have a spring. And I like all seasons, I like that they come one after the other and make life less monotonous. But right now, after the Czech autumn I miss it so much! Once my foot feels better, I plan to go shopping, get lots of pumpkins, decorate them and put them all up. I've never done this in my life, Halloween was never really part of my life (seeing as I've never even been to the US). But decorating our place with pumpkins and watching Halloween'y films is the best I can come up with to surround myself with the feel of autumn. Ikebana made out of yellow/red/orange leaves would be nice, but we just don't have such leaves.

But the bright idea of googling "autumn ikebana" resulted in the thought that yellow, red and orange flowers in a pumpkin can be substituted for leaves! That does look nice. And, maybe, I can wear all red. yellow and orange clothes... with a bit of brown... I wonder if I have suitable clothes that can be combined like this... *walks towards the wardrobe, muttering*