Submission

Colors!	Drive by colors	Native witch hazel blooming
leaf tourists on the parkway near the viaduct	The leaf tourist draw

I know there’s a scientific explanation for all of this, but I prefer the majesty.  It’s as if some playful child cracked open several different cans of warm colored paint and spilled them all at the top of the mountain, and they are oozing their way down to us.  And then we’ve had days of perfection like yesterday and this whole weekend to make sure we can get outside and feast our eyes.  Once again, nature conspires to pleasure us.  Just in case we were tempted to feel gloomy about the winding down of the growing season (I’m not) and the approaching cold and potential wetness, nature stuns us into submission with its magnificent light show.  We’ll all be sure to ease into winter now with a smile pasted on our faces. Okay, I say, bring it on, I can head into winter this way.