Seasons

Summer is over and that saddens as its a wonderful season, perhaps the best in our repetitive cycle. However it's the cycle itself that helps rationalise why we live here. The constant changes, the varying daytime length, and wonders each quarter brings.

We can ponder the length of winter (it's no surprise there are no groundhog sightings in late August telling us how long we have to wait to don the long underwear), and the precise days that our canopy will be most vibrantly orange, yellow and red. We celebrate the new leaves erupting in their various shades of green, new life exploding around us and suffer the mixed emotions of the return to school and all that means with cooling days and colder nights.

I've spent some time in non-changing climates recently, and it's dull. Nicely dull to be sure, always warm and sunny, but dull all the same. I welcome the changes and evolving landscape we live in, watching the dynamic before our eyes.

So summer is over - bring on a vibrant and exciting autumn and its offerings of gold.