This is my fourth season of blogging. I started in January in the dead of winter and have been through spring, summer and now fall. There is some thing about the smells of fall that invoke memories more than any other season. Some of the times it brings back to me are:
Raking leaves and my kids jumping in the piles
Going back to school
Harvesting on the farm
Picking apples
Making apple cider
Carving pumpkins
Drying leaves in the pages of heavy books
Fall church suppers
Even though this season is all about the dying back of trees, flowers, and plants, there is a profound feeling of life in the air. It's as if nature is saying if I have to go, I'm going out with a blaze. I am glad to live in a place that has four distinct seasons as it seems to make me more in tune with reality and the seasons of life.
Thought for the day: I trust in Nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility; Spring shall plant and Autumn garner to the end of time. Robert Browning
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