Maybe it’s because we know winter is coming and we'll be stuck indoors, but fall seems to be when most of us spend our time out and about, doing all the fun things available only this time of the year.
    This issue of Elkhart County Living is chock full of things to do on the gorgeous autumn afternoons and Indian Summer days that we all hope are just around the corner.
    Serious maze-goers should check out Knollbrook Farm's seven-acre scavenger hunt corn maze, which tests sense of direction and trivia knowledge.
    Every year since 1972, Ligonier's Fashion Farm has been home to Pumpkin Fantasyland, where pumpkins take on a slightly different look than the standard jack o'lantern. This year, pumpkins will fill 40 nursery rhyme-themed displays.
    At Kercher's Sunrise Orchards the Halloween season will kick off Oct. 4 and 5 with the Harvest Festival, which adds fun foods to the list of activities Kercherπs offers each weekend. Visitors can stroll through the orchard to pick a variety of apples, or take a short hay ride to the pumpkin patch where a small corn maze has been added this year.
    If you're looking for a slightly scarier time, check out the Niles Haunted House Scream Park, which is not for the faint of heart. The main draw of the scream park is the Niles Haunted House, which has a number of rooms that this year follow the themes castle, south of the border, Egypt, clown, pirate, cowboy and Chinese.
    But there's more in this issue than just where to go to enjoy fall activities. Also featured:
    • Marshland Trail Riding, located off U.S. 20 in Goshen, which opened this spring with trails on 152 acres of fields, woods, wetlands and meadows.
    • Local retailers talk about the rising popularity of tea.
    • Carey Maish, 12, Goshen, who saves her allowance to donate money to agencies that help animals.
    • “The Scene’s” visit to the Four Arts Fashion Show.
    • Papa Joe's Italian restaurant in Mishawaka, hard to find, but worth the trip.
    Enjoy this issue and get out there and have some fun this fall.
    Winter will be here before you know it.