Autumn is a time of settling down to winter. If you have to take care of a yard you start thinking about what needs to be trimmed and protected for winter. You make plans for snow, getting out shovels putting away rakes. All the while holding on to the precious last few weeks of warmth and light. It is a season of settling down for a long winter’s nap in some ways. I love my yard and gardens and love spending time in them. However, I must admit I look forward to the season where the to do list is shorter, where I am not battling the weeds and growing grass. Where I can just focus on a cozy spot in my house and let the yard just be. I once heard a nature expert talk about the seasons of nature and two things have stuck with me. That spring and early summer is filled with bird song, late summer with insect song and late fall and winter is filled with silence. As humans for millions of years we were part of these natural rhythms, and I think somewhere inside we do still move with the seasons. I know I start to long for the stillness and silence of winter in nature. The deep rest that it seems to signify, provided you are not trying to drive or having difficulty getting warm. Insect song is coming to a close now that we have had some frost, fall leaves are starting to dance around our cars and feet. The deep stillness and change in the season is upon us. What will you do to mark it, to settle into the next season, what will you perhaps make quiet for this next while. Our ancestral DNA is attuned, lets get tuned in to that ourselves and take some time to move with songs of the season. Cozy socks, soup, pumpkin spice, indoor activities and a little more quiet in nature all awaits us in this changing of the season.
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