This I love . . .
I love the autumn season. I have been singing the praises of this autumn weather the past few weeks. Having lived my entire life in a Midwestern US State I have come to look forward to the beauty of the autumn days. The warmth of the sun on autumn afternoons with temperatures that are ideal sweater days, which are then transformed into crisp, cool evenings. Evenings that remind you of the seasonal change we are going through.
The visual beauty of the season is so enjoyable when you witness the green leafed trees being changed almost in front of your eyes to multicolored spectacles. Brilliant yellows, reds and browns replace an otherwise drab green landscape and are intensified when intertwined with the dark green of an occasional evergreen bush that won't ever change its color.
Also, late in the afternoon, on many autumn days, the sky with its gray threatening clouds adds yet another brilliant dimension in black and white to the accompany the colorful spectacle of the season.
I love the warmth of sun in the summer, the beauty of newly fallen snow in the winter and the floral rebirth in the spring, but none of those can match the beauty, warmth and comfort provided by autumn. I love the autumn season.
Then as quickly as it appears you awake one morning and it's all gone! The rains and winds of the previous night have stripped the trees of their beauty and left in its place on the ground a colorful patchwork quilt of leaves. Adding insult to injury the comfortable sweater weather is gone and the temperatures drop to freezing and hover around the middle 30's. Your eyes absorb the shock of the missing color and your body absorbs the shock of the frigid weather. Yes, it is cold this morning, but yes, this is autumn. I love it!