END OF AUTUMN?

Where I live, autumn is becoming wintry.  But winter has not yet come. Many leaves have fallen yet the trees are not yet bare. Whether standing against a severe sky or leaning in to water, they still witness their own vitality.

Along the canal bank, there are places  where the green-gold beauty of autumn in this locality remains present, here on 5 November. I have a strong sense of continuing energy and life.

This feeling is most powerful for me when I  hear the wind blowing through the trees and see leaves holding on even as the branches sway. Soon enough, these leaves will fall. Here and now, they are very much part of their trees.