It's the Great Pumpkin (Muffin), Charlie Brown!

I love Charlie Brown.  And I love Snoopy... and Linus... and Lucy.  Heck, I love Charles Schultz.  He was a genius.

I also love the beginning of fall.  Ok, ok, it's technically still summer. 

But my calendar isn't organized by days, or weeks, or even seasons.  In case you couldn't guess, my calendar is arranged by the types of foods that come out around certain times.

Let me tell you, it makes it so much more fun getting up in the morning knowing that September is national potato month.  It really is.  Check it out.

But anyways, my food calendar says it's fall.  Know why?

Cause pumpkin is everywhere!  Pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin flavored lattes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin ice cream, and on and on and on.

It is now socially permissible to consume pumpkin.  People give you weird looks if you eat pumpkin pie in the summer. Whatever.  Their loss.

My personal sign of the season is Dunkin Donuts' pumpkin muffin ("Dunkin" rhymes with "pumpkin" so you know it has to be good). 

There she is.  My first of the year.  It was a momentous occasion.

I really can't bare to let any of it go to waste, so I have to scrape off the liner.

Off with its head!!! - a decapitation of sorts...because the muffin top is the best.  Don't even argue with me.

And then I construct a topographical map to identify the best spot for the godbite.  I think you know where I'm looking.  Bottom left...crumb topping, icing, edge = deliciousness.  Yum-yums.

Then flipped up-side-down for maximal taste bud euphoria.

It was gone too fast. I wonder if they sell them in boxes of a dozen like with donuts.  Cause that'd be cool, ya know?