Letter to the editor: Autumn's Second Act

As summer dwindles, autumn gracefully, almost magically, takes center stage for another memorable performance. But did you know, there is yet another sequence of the season? Yes, there is an Act II to Mother Nature's autumn glory.With the autumnal equinox, this longed-for season almost invisibly enters our midst mid-September, welcoming October and its gifts enhancing the radiance, the feel, the air of the season as May likewise enlivens spring.Heavenly blue skies, often crowded with drifting, daunting gray and white clouds often yielding to an unexpected kaleidoscope of glorious beams so illuminating those clouds, the ceiling above us, with rays of sun.Too soon, too soon, however, almost in the blink of an eye, this so longed-for sweater weather, brilliant majestic foliage … this painter's palette, fade. The radiant beauties concede as cooler temperatures suspend nutrition reluctantly releasing their hold.

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