"Fall" - to your knees.

      Sneaking in like a stranger coming through the back door of your home, all too well disguised with myriads of shades of reds, yellows and orange leaves, and teamed with several heart warming mid-day afternoons followed by crisp evening breeezes, along with heavily dew'd morning grasses sprinkled in spots with a dusting of frost, a scene that any earthly artist has yet to reproduce in magnitude, "Fall" arrives.

       Green tree leaves once shielding the gound beneath from the harsh rays of the summers sun, now, in reverse, as if giving off the sunlight they have collected all summer, present a brilliant display; in effect creating an endless sunset that lasts for days.

       With its' arrival one may quickly offer a "cold shoulder" rather than accept it's offerings of beauty and harvests. However, taking a bite out of a fresh picked red delicious apple, shortly after Falls' magical coating of frost in the orchard, or perhaps sampling some fresh warm apple pie filling, may be all that it takes to quickly warm a heart to the season and cause one to not think of what was lost or suddenly gone but turn outward, in gratitude, for what they have, as well as what they had.

Thank you.
Dedicated to the most grateful person I know. Mom Wilkey