Hello, dear pandas. I really missed you! As a mum, photographer, and freelancer, autumn is already the busiest season of my life. While everyone’s outside picking mushrooms and sipping pumpkin lattes (you can tell I’m jealous, haha), I’m inside shooting Christmas cookies in October. I’m lighting up fairy lights when it’s +20°C outside, sprinkling fake snow on cakes while my kid asks if Santa is already coming.

It feels like autumn in France barely happened this year. One moment I was out in a light jacket, admiring golden leaves, and the next — boom — Christmas trees, advent calendars, and fake snow everywhere. The shops suddenly smelled like cinnamon and capitalism, and I stood there genuinely wondering: “Did I blink and miss October?”

So, if you also feel like someone stole autumn wher

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