Autumn Has Arrived

In the trees, at least; the weather was cool for a few days, but the temperature has climbed back up again. If you know me, you know that I love fall. I think this comes of having lived in a Mediterranean climate for so long. Palm trees don't change, ya know. So one of the highlights of my year is when the weather gets cooler and the leaves start to turn. They're not amazing here yet, but still pretty nice. Observe:

Cows & tractor! (This should probably be the name of a band.)

The above was taken from my kitchen, while the following three were taken hanging out of windows at school today.

And for a poem apropos to the subject, I give you "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.