WHY DO I LOVE AUTUMN?

 Sing a song of seasons!

 Something bright in all!

  Flowers in the summer,

                                         Fires in the fall!"            Robert Louis Stevenson

You can smell the change. The summer is over. The ambient temperature gradually slipping down, the days getting smaller. The most noticeable is the changing colour of the leaves all around you. The different shades of green are miraculously turning into brighter shades of yellow and red as if the trees and shrubs are trying to compensate for the decreasing brightness and coldness of the sun. The air is filled with aromas of the ripening fruits. Pure magic.

But there is another reason I welcome autumn. The abundance of flowers, buzzing of bees &, and long hours of sunlight that makes summer so delightful, gradually becomes monotonous. I do become restless and yearn for a change. And change whether we like it or not, is inevitable. If there is no change, there will be no “before” and “after”. Simply it will mean that time has stopped. Time measures change and is measured by change (From Aristotle’s Physics Book IV, part 10-13, 350 B.C.E.) Stopping time is not a technological problem, it is a physical impossibility for our model of universe. Everything in the universe including us has evolved in this everchanging environ and hence it is in our very core to love change and hate status quo.

I like autumn also as a matter of principle. I detest monopolies of any kind. Autumn

breaks the monopoly of Green (Chlorophyll) by giving the others like Yellow (Xanthophylls), Orange (Carotenoids) and Red (Anthocyanins) a leg up. Even the swaths of green lawns get covered by the fallen yellow, red, and brown leaves.

What is there not to adore Autumn

                       "The trees are in their autumn beauty 

                        The woodland paths are dry,

                        Under the October twilight the water

                        Mirrors a still sky.”                                   William Butler Yeats