Fleeting pleasure leaves

As Mother Nature teams up with Jack Frost, winter swoops in each year to bring us such a fleeting pleasure, the changing of the leaves. From green... to yellow... to gold... to orange... to red... to brown... the colors of fall are splatter painted across the land by the greatest artist of them all. The quite green pallet of summer is transformed into a vivid pallet of autumn color, each leaf slightly different from the one beside it. Before long, one by one the leaves flutter away from their summer home and become a part of the rich carpet that covers the forest floor. Winter is here and the trees are left naked to the freeze of winter. Cold... dark... waiting for the budding color to be revealed once again.

The fall foliage is like the colors within each of us.... our true colors. The thoughtful greens, joyful yellows, honest golds, playful oranges, passionate reds, and deep browns... each color more present at different points in our lives. These true colors change within us, like the seasons in a year...making us beautiful in all of our many colors.