Mhmm....autumn. What a wonderful time of year. The leaves start to change color, homework starts to pick up, and people learn of the wonderful idiosynchrises that they will develop and carry with them for the frigid winter months. The scenery is most beautiful. Leaves change from their mundane, green summer colors to the bright reds and golds and yellows and oranges as the life-sustaining chlorophyll in the leaves dries up and causes the trees to slowly die throughout winter, starving for spring so they can once again be nourished by the welcome warm rays of the sun. The colors are so bright and vivid, and it's just wonderful to walk through a forest or near any wooded area and soak up the weak, but warm, autumn sun and enjoy the plethora of color that assails the ocular organs. But in autumn we are faced with the terrible knowledge that winter is close upon us. Winter, the season of death, the season of snow, the season of chilly coldness. Autumn, the precursor to this seasonal madness. It's fun at the beginning of autumn. We start to adjust to the cold weather. The flannel comes out, the pants come out, the heaters kick on, energy bills rise, people start to dream of spring and the ensuing warmth. Friendships are made, relationships are rekindled, dogs die, people laugh, and the world generally moves forward in its patterns of normalcy. But a few of us will pause, give thanks for what they have, and just enjoy the beauty of this season. Autumn, it's what's comin next.
And so we go.
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