Leaf Treat

Josh, lovely images of transformation and growth even as winter creeps in. Bless

Thanks Mel for the visit, cold mornings here but  reaching just a tad under 30degC at the hot part of the day. Still no rain. Still watering veg & garden every day.

My friend, you have transformed the image of death into a festival of life. Fall or autumn, as many say, is the prelude of the the season of sleep, winter, which many see as a metaphor of the grave. You truly have made it a metaphor for rebirth. Well done. J

Thank you Juvenalis, having originally been trained as a problem-solving goal-oriented engineer it's taken many decades to accept life is cyclical - not linear - and every 'death' somehow contributes to rebirth and new life - as you well point out. I've found it a much more peaceful way of accepting what life brings.

We are desert dwellers and just now coming into our growing season. But thanks for the memory.
Looks real nice with the photo.
Ain't it fun to collaborate?

The weather here offers possibilities of all-year round growing (for somethings) - but every year is a bit hit-&-miss due partly to unpredictable weather patterns. Collaborating with Mother Earth is the only real game in town, if you get it right abundance is yours for the picking.  :))

Very nice, Josh... really captures the ambience... and delightfully punny title-ing.
I am especially taken with that last mysterious line... Ely

Thank you Ely, the last line is slipped in due to experience every year of odd surprises where something grows amazingly unexpected.

Love how you point out that nature is cyclic.  Beauty never lasts in its pristine, usual form, but is reborn.  Love the layout and your reading.  Truly fine work!

Thank you Crowfly - nature seems to teach me a different rhythm where a huge amount of hidden effort underpins a sudden flowering of fruit or flowers - and somehow the cyclical element of life is so much more reassuring than the linear goal-go-getter approach. It's the latter approach that's destroying the planet when it could be so different (as Freddie Mercury, amongst others, pointed out)

Beautiful, Josh.  They do accept their fate gracefully. 🍁🍂🍃

Yes, thank you, life as a cycle is so much more rewarding if we can let go of linear goal-achieving as the only focus.