Fall Promise

Government House Garden
(just one of the gardens)
Victoria, B.C.

The leaves have begun to fall

Secretly, quietly

Trees still green ~

fading fullness barely noticeable.

The more sensitive

to seasonal shifts

state brilliantly that 

it is almost time

for a change

from green to gold.

Afternoon's warm deception

shivers in the night time,

promising a crispy blanket of leaves on 

sparkling frozen grass when

the time arrives.

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."

~ Edwin Way Teale