The Day Autumn Disappeared

What happened to autumn?

Nobody knows.

Oh, won't somebody find it,

Before winter snows. ~by Leandra ;)

Silly little poem aside, autumn has all but disappeared.  It's a pity really, because this one looked to be lovelier than ever.  Instead, I manged to get these few photos as the temperature was rapidly dropping and then I had to go indoors and defrost my fingers and toes.  

After warming up, it started sleeting and within an hour, I got the message to come and pick up my children because school was letting out early.  So, I bundled up again and headed back out into the cold.

By the next morning there was a thick layer of ice and sleet covering the ground and all the leaves had blown off the trees.  Life is full of moments like this, where if you don't act quickly you'll miss your only chance.

It's tempting when those opportunities pass us by to sink into a despair, even if it's mild, at what will never be.  And while it's perfectly normal and maybe even healthy to grieve those losses for a moment, it's also good for the soul to then let it go and turn your attention instead to everything good that's all around you and all the potential that lies ahead of you.

I may have missed my chance at fall photos, but the snow day did present the opportunity to cuddle up with my children next to the fire for card games and cocoa and lots of pets for that fat drowsy old cat we let come in for the winter every year.

So, autumn may be over and I don't have as many photos as I wanted, but what I do have is a growing collection of so many great memories.  And that's far more precious to me than pictures.

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