Living in the Season

I recently posted on Facebook about being saddened by the plethora of Christmas décor that have popped up on local area shopping centers and street lights. It seems that Halloween ends and BAM! Here's Christmas. I don't mean to sound all bah-hum-buggy or anything and perhaps Ole Ebenezer Scrooge himself may have even embraced the commercialism and capitalism of Christmas in his unchanged self; however, can we not just enjoy the season at hand? Fall has JUST happened here in East Tennessee. The leaves are amazingly beautiful and I want to truly be able to enjoy them in all their splendor without seeing a fake Christmas garland and wreath hanging on my local grocery store shopping center on November 1. I understand stores putting out their Christmas décor on the INSIDE of the store as they are trying to get a jump on the holiday season, but I don't understand why the outside of the stores need to be decorated at this point in the year. As the Lorax wisely said, "I speak for the trees." Let's enjoy the majestic beauty of the tress as they themselves are truly "living in the season."