Sunday 24th April 2022 I used to hate Autumn. The change of seasons indicated that cold weather was coming. I'm a summer girl. Autumn light shifts everything and makes my windscreen look mucky (which it probably is) Daylight shortens and the houses cool over. The leaves on the streets make the place looked littered and chaotic. I never knew that I was annoyed by the messiness of the leaves until I found rather obsessively raking them up every day with much cursing under my breath, a few years ago. Today I was driving from a lovely lunch and the trees caught my eye. Majestic and tall while hanging on to the multi coloured leaves, I realised how pretty it looks. I wondered if the tree got sad about the season's leaves demise or did it accept that the cycle was over. Perhaps it gains unknown qualities spending a season in it's stark nakedness. Maybe the branches need the direct Vit D on its bark.
I looked at the decaying carpet of leaves on the road and I shifted my perspective in a moment. The nutrients are needed by the soil and it welcomes the boost of Vit Leave. The Spring job of attracting insects while buds, absorbing gases during the day while providing the earth with some shady relief, are all tiring seasonal jobs yet the next phase starts on the ground. No longer viewing the leaves as 'dead' I got quite excited at the invisible functions that I have overlooked. Everything has a season and a purpose and today's season was more appreciated by me than ever before. California dreaming...
(📷 Molly is just because she's cute )
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