With the temperature dropping and leaves changing, the autumn equinox on September 22 officially started the fall season in the northern hemisphere. One student excited about the change of seasons is Brooke Dunn, junior, who enjoys all of the sights and scents fall has to offer.

“I like to read with a blanket and a fall scented candle lit,” Dunn said. “I really like going to the park too because it’s really pretty.”

Of course with autumn comes Halloween, one of Dunn’s favorite holidays.

“I don’t usually go trick-or-treating, I just stay home and watch horror movies,” Dunn said.

As the weather changes, so to does the fashion of the fall season.

“I love tights, boots, dresses and oversized sweaters,” Dunn said. “I like getting warm and drinking hot chocolate.”

Another student excited about this fall season is Meaghan Doore, senior, who loves to play fall sports and cuddle by warm bonfire. To keep warm, Doore frequently wears some of her favorite fall fashion pieces: scarves, jeans, boots and sweaters.

For Doore, fall means spending time with friends and family enjoying this peaceful time of year.

“As a kid I would go pumpkin picking with my family in Columbia, Illinois,” Doore said. “Then later we would go home and I’d carve them with my brothers.”

Even though it means going back to work, teachers too enjoy activities in the fall. Noelle Clatto, language arts teacher, loves doing anything outdoors. She enjoys apple picking, cleaning up the yard and decorating the house for Halloween with her two kids.

“I love roasted and salted pumpkin seeds, good chili and Merb’s Caramel Apples,” Clatto said. “I also love the mixture of really salty peanuts with candy corn, spiked apple cider and any of my kids Halloween candy I can get my hands on.”

Fall also presents the opportunity to reminisce of memories from childhood, something Clatto does fondly.

“We had really large trees in my backyard so we had to rake the leaves and jump in them,” Clatto said. “It was always a trick to see who could miss landing in the dog crap.”