Tag: autumn

Autumn

.Reading time 8 minutes.

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” – Albert Camus The temperatures begin to chill.  The leaves crumble to the ground and trees are left bare. Still, Autumn remains a favorite time for many in the northern hemisphere.  Indeed, Americans in particular chose autumn overwhelmingly as their favorite season in a 2023 survey […]

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Nature’s Color Palette

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Autumn in the northern hemisphere paints the leaves of our communities, parks and forests in an abundance of brilliant colors, from the golden yellow of aspen leaves to the brilliant scarlet colored red maple leaves to russet colored oak leaves.  As the days shorten and the intensity of the day’s light lessens, leaves on trees prepare […]

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Painting the Harvest

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Harvest, the season of the gathering of crops. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon haerfest (“autumn”) or the Old High German herbist. Harvest has been a season of rejoicing from the remotest times. (Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/topic/harvest) Artists have captured the annual harvest period, so important and celebrated culturally and socially, especially in our earlier […]

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