Precious Days

The most interesting thing about autumn is the finite nature of the season.

Over the next six to eight weeks the amount of daily sunshine and average high termperatures drop substantially.

Marvelous days of blue skies and green trees  to give way to colors of orange and gold.  Those colors fall, appropriately enough, revealing scores of empty nests.

Joining birds of fellow feathers, song birds shut down for the year, and follow snowbirds south.  September sun becomes lead color clouds of October.

It's the transformation, the presto-chango of seasons, which make autumn so precious.  We know what's coming - icy cold and snow - which makes each warm, sunny day one for our memories.

Leaves leave.  Thermometers crash.  The sun sleeps in.  All the action, the bluster and fuss of raking leaves distract us from the approach of winter.  It's like a Reader's Digest version of a full year.

Yellow drops of sunshine fall on leaves; individual pieces of the summer we leave behind and a final opportunity to press summertime in a book.

89 days - the average drops from 72 to 30.

Hold on to Autumn with your heart; your soul; and your spirit.