“Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and
color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance.
What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his
world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?” — American
writer, journalist and naturalist Hal Borland (1900-1978),
Sundial of the Seasons (1964)
I took the attached photo of a scene from Ringwood
Manor here in New Jersey back in November 2015. We’re still nowhere near the
colorful landscape I marveled at back then. But dropping temperatures in this
area like we’ve had the last couple of days and nights will bring us closer to
that point.
