Article: Embracing autumn, and the changes it brings.(General News)

Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." - novelist George Eliot

It doesn't make any sense, really, this love of autumn.

Why welcome shorter days, cooler nights and the end of summer's garden bounty?

But some of us do.

Autumn may have taken us out for some rough spins - snowed on our end-of-season backpacking trips, frosted our pumpkins. Still, we lean into this ephemeral window between summer and winter, checking forecasts, feeling self-satisfied when school starts up again, because we know that ...

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