Fall Follow Up

Although the temperatures are abnormally high, the colors of Autumn foliage are remarkable this Fall. In fact, they are more vibrant than they were last year. While running along high ways and footpaths today, I was surrounded by breath-taking colors of reds, maroons, yellows, oranges and browns. Later, walking the dog, I wished I actually owned a camera to record such hues. But I'm okay. I like knowing that the changing leaves are in my seasonal understanding of a year. As long as I have life, leaves will alter colors and eventually fall. Perhaps one day, too, my heart, body and soul will join such transcendence. I find happiness in such truth.

It is too bad, however, that some of these colors couldn't stay around to weave within the white and gray days to come. It would be spectacular to see a tree lighting up a field of snow with its late release of summer leaves.

Then again, I have wonderful memories of walking to Alice and Charlie's on winter nights, when their oaks and maples offered dark, branched contrast to the setting sun, purple skies and nightfall. I wouldn't change those images for anything in the world.