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the season trees throw their own death party and somehow it's the most beautiful thing all year
means The season between summer and winter when leaves turn and fall, days shorten, and harvests come in — also called fall.
from From Latin 'autumnus,' a word the Romans themselves couldn't fully explain — its deeper roots are genuinely uncertain, possibly tied to an older sense of 'passing' or 'ripening,' though no one knows for sure. It reached English through Old French 'autompne' in the late Middle Ages, slowly elbowing aside the plain old English word 'harvest,' which once named the whole season. Meanwhile English speakers in America held onto 'fall' — short for 'fall of the leaf' — so the season ended up with two names: one borrowed and Latinate, one homegrown and literal.
- americans say fall
- brits coined fall first, then abandoned it
- color reveal
- green dies to expose colors hiding all along
- falling leaves
- trees actively shove leaves off to survive
- equinox balance
- day and night split nearly perfectly even
- animal rush
- squirrels can forget where most nuts are buried
fall foliage in vermont — peak color typically occurs in early october, drawing over 1 million visitors annually
koyo in kyoto japan — traditional autumn leaf viewing season from late october to november at temples like arashiyama
autumnal equinox september 22 — marks the astronomical beginning of fall in the northern hemisphere each year