I love fall...
when I was younger...
the return of school was welcomed...
the promise of learning new things...
a new start... an end to summer boredom...
[country girl...]
the return of cooler weather...
the coziness of being inside when it was stormy...
the "harvest home"...
the approaching holidays...
the glorious bursts of foliage...
going to their death in flames...
a reminder of how sterile...
the cold, wet winter can be...
but as I've grown older...
it has become the light I look forward to...
as the direct, burning glare of summer mellows...
the sun seems to turn its' head sideways...
taking a last, warm, loving look at natures bounty...
before it turns away ...
leaving us to the dark, wet and cold...
the acuteness of the angle...
intensifies the depth of the color spectrum...
and the mists & haze in the air...
paint a last path of sunlight into our very beings...
and leaves glow...
as if with an inner fire...
blazing their presence into our very souls...
so we will not... we cannot... forget them...
the sky radiates an intense blue...
the perfect canvas for the clouds that are trying...
trying to gather the first rain...
washing the summer's dust from the soon to be splendid foliage...
and as the air chills... and the leaves turn...
the blue deepens to a shade...
that makes my soul ache for the sight of it...
the perfect counterpoint...
for the leaves...
as they become transient notes...
in a love song from God...
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