As fall arrives, the days get shorter, the temperature gets colder, signaling the brilliant transformation of colors. The landscape highlighted with reds, yellows, and oranges. The healthy green of spring and summer gives way to a kaleidoscope of colors for a few fleeting weeks of the fall. The display is short and as the leaves prepare for the flight from branch to the ground, something curious is happening. Branches are actually "cutting" the leaves off. Chemical signals trigger the growth of cells between the leaf stem and the branch. These cells actively "push" the leaf away from the branch creating a break or "cut" between them. It's after these cells have grown that the wind is able to carry these colorful sun collectors on their last whirl-wind journey to the ground.
Letting go... if only it were as simple as listening to the temperature and the length of the days. These precious cues signaling this is it. Time to go. You've had your summer, and enjoyed all its had to offer. Now it is time... LET GO.
I wonder if in the winter when you hear the rattling twigs and the horace wind, if in fact, you are hearing the tree's mourning the loss of their sun collectors. Each groan and crack, a whispered thank you and goodbye.
Letting go... if only it were as simple as listening to the temperature and the length of the days. These precious cues signaling this is it. Time to go. You've had your summer, and enjoyed all its had to offer. Now it is time... LET GO.
I wonder if in the winter when you hear the rattling twigs and the horace wind, if in fact, you are hearing the tree's mourning the loss of their sun collectors. Each groan and crack, a whispered thank you and goodbye.
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