Four Season tree – Haust (Autumn)

Description

Spent leaves change to rust and russett, the colours of fire and earth. A wind encircles, threatening to detach the last of the fronds from their homely stays. Giant maple and angel’s trumpets stage their last before making way for the cankerous nuts and seed heads of the new season.  A walk in the woods, harvesting mushrooms and chestnuts; each crunching step a warning to hidden fawns and a signal to send squirrels scurrying into protective branches. These are the sights and flavours of autumn, as predictable as the turning leaves that rise and fall in the cooling air.