Why Autumn?
Why do I like Autumn best?
Autumn is the harvest. Of reaping what is has been sown.
It’s the mellowing, angled light of the fall sun; the long shadows in the late afternoons cast by the autumn sun hanging low in the southwestern sky.
The cycle of gentle decay, of dying leaves that bloom with magnificent color, a beautiful farewell and promise of another spring after the hard winter ahead. A celebration of the cyclic nature of things here on this earth.
It’s just a fancy way of saying it’s the colors of autumn that make the season my favorite.
Sometimes winter gets ahead of herself, moving in with an early storm and hastening, with the chill wind, an early blanket of white snow, adding it’s own color to a wintry-autumn scene.
Winter in Autumn – photos from Cheyenne, Wyoming by Roy Barnes
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Visit a classic Fall Color photo album from 2006
By Jill Irwin
