A Time of Change by James Ehlers D uring the course of each year Nature signals the change of seasons in numerous subtle and some very obvious ways.
None is more obvious than fall foliage especially here in Vermont.
Naked before winter's return. Native legends says hunters in the sky killed the Great Bear each autumn dripping his blood on the earth, turning leaves red. Roasting bear meat spilling from a celestial kettle turned other leaves yellow. S cience says chilly days and growing nights precipitated by the earth's angle relative to the sun, convince cells in leaf stem bases that it is time for a change. The cells begin to die.