as summer fades to autumn

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. -Mitchell Burgess

Reflection. That really does seem to be what autumn is all about. When I picture autumn, my mind brings up a picture of a placid pond in the middle of a forest of crimson and golden leaves. When you look down into the pool of water, it's so smooth and glassy that you can see your face reflected in it as in a mirror, your head crowned by the slowly falling autumn leaves and surrounded by the blue September sky. And right now, amid all the craziness of school, church, friends, and the many things I'm doing, there's a peacefulness that allows my mind time to reflect "on what's come before."