Alluring Autumn

Trees once full with the green foliage are now glimmering with colors.

Leaves by hundreds fall by. You have piles and piles of this multicolored dry leaves fallen everywhere making a bewitching carpet on the streets to walk on.

Every leaf on the street has turned into a mosaic of vibrant colors…. Foliage turned into crimson, auburn, ochre, golden, bronze … with oodles of oomph in this time of the year! In the golden light of autumn there is magic in the air. One cold current of breeze sets the leaves falling from the tree.

The leaf must wonder, as it by itself doesn’t know when the gusts of wind whooshing through the trees may mark its fall from the tree. There are fallen leaves everywhere. The wind blows them to places far off from where they were even born or were created.

I am truly overwhelmed and mesmerized by the vivid expressions of the autumn in Washington.

How fascinating it is to learn that the tree once so full with its foliage, lives a life of youthful blossom in spring where singing birds are among the branches, it bears good fruit in summer, then transcends into much more graceful attire of autumn. And later retires unrobed giving an awe-inspiring goodbye to all the beauty it once graced.

Just to say, that these trees soon will have served their purpose of their life cycle and surrender whatever they had adorned back to the nature. The leaves will now serve the purpose of becoming farmyard manure or a good compost giving good mineral rich soil for the growing plants in the spring.

Every single entity in nature has found its well defined purpose. Purpose of making a life worth living , with life the purpose itself and purpose the life.

I would like to quote a verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The day becomes more solemn and serene
When noon is past; there is a harmony
In autumn, and a luster in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

-Manasi