[Stone-Butch]

Autumn is just another beautiful part of our year. It brings many brilliant colors to say farewell to summer and hello to winter. I think autumn is necessary to transend from the hot summer to the cold times of winter to come. Animals are so busy with autumn, collecting food for winter, flying to another warm place out of the cool winds that let them know that snow is on its way. I see autumn as a necessary part of the year as I also see spring. Spring is opposite but it gives the leaves back to the sleeping trees and grows the fresh grass to sustain all life. I truly love the signs and stillness before the winter starts that autumn brings with it. We need the four seasons as we need four directions, for stages of all living things that go through life, morning, afternoon, evening and night. All these things have their order and their place and autumn to me fills its own space in the passage of time. I welcome it.