duets

It continues to surprise me how the seasons turn on a day, not a gentle gradual coming or going, but a noticeable...next! 
As if summer is being hustled off the stage with the hook.

The oaks have heard the chant and have started releasing their acorns. 
I don't know why this surprises me but every year, surprise me it does.

There is no looking up one day and realizing that, oh, it's fall, whenever did that happen? 
For me it's opening the door in the morning to summer one day and opening it to fall the next.

I realize the big old tallow in the little back yard has been losing leaves for weeks now and the ginkgo and pecan joined it last week. 
But now, in the second day past the equinox, they have definitely received some signal.

The angle of the light and the movement of the sun across the span from spring to fall has shifted and a breeze was stirring from the east.
We had rain of a different sort as leaves gently showered down.