Like Summer is the Autumn, just brighter, just cooler...
When the birds leave for warmer places one knows
Winter is not far away, Christmas is not far away.

So are we finally here, at the start of the new, 
for what we call Fall
when the plants are decaying in the soil 
and begin to give new life.
Is it not so that what we call Autumn is
 a beginning to all the new,
when the old relent for what is to become?

So welcome Autumn, 
welcome to give us life, to give us joy.
Annette, in October 2002