Change of Season

The weather has finally started its change, the almost intolerable heat is abating and giving way to cooler, dryer weather as Autumn makes its presence known. The leaves on the trees have started changing color and shedding their multi-hued yellows, reds, oranges and browns in a dappled carpet beneath the limbs that bore them. There is a crispness to the air and early morning seems to remind me that cooler weather is yet to come.

I took a nice long walk early evening and looked about as people decorated their porches, walkways and front yards with pumpkins, scarecrows, hay shocks and other reminders of the fall season. It is probably my favorite time of the year. The aromas associated with it, the colors that paint and the sounds that narrate it. Looking up to the sky the geese and ducks fly south to their winter homes, squirrels stocking up nuts and seeds for the colder days ahead and song birds filling the branches waiting for the feeders to be filled. A wonderful and magical time of the year as the death of summer lends to life's renewal when spring makes its appearance.

I watched as children played on tire swings suspended from a high limb by a single rope and then jumping off into a pile of freshly raked leaves and scattering them, the wind gusts picking them up and scattering them down the block into neighboring yards. The laugh as they played chase and tag, the leaves scattering at their feet and their parent's smiles as their antics bought back memories of their younger yesterdays.

It seems that all living things sense this special time of the year, even pets seem to enjoy the cooler temperatures, the change in the season seems to bring a change in them.

Yes, I love this wonderful time of the year, this season of change and vibrancy with all it has to offer one's senses.

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