Photo of the Day: Slow Turn Into Fall, Riverside Park, NYC

“October’s half over

and the leaves have not begun

to surrender.”— Poet and nonfiction writer Maureen Ryan Griffin, “Symphony in E Minor: On Wanting the Leaves Off All the Trees,” in Ten Thousand Cicadas Can’t Be Wrong (2014)

I took the attached photo at almost the exact time as now two years ago in Riverside Park. Even now more than then, autumn was slow to come this year, and I’m afraid it won’t stick around for long.