Last year, Calgary didn't really have a fall... or at least, I didn't get to experience it! Maybe I was away that week! Last year, it seemed like the trees went from green to partially yellow and then straight to brown. No flamboyant displays of yellow, gold, orange and red... Brown came far too quickly!
This year though, things seem different... The trees have been changing colour for a few weeks now, and I notice whole swaths of yellow with the occassional red bush here and there. It might be time for a photography mission out there! I miss the extended fall we would have in northern BC... the crisp, cool mornings, the smell of fall in the air... The flaming cottonwoods and aspens... the red of the maples... not very many, mind you... not like out east.... but still!
There's something very hopeful about fall... something very trusting... The trees and bushes give up their leaves, give up the way life has been this year, to enter into dormancy for the next 6 months or so. They trust that the spring will come again... even when it's -40 C out there... They have hope that next year, they will be able to bud forth... But in order to have that new life show up, they need to let go of this life... of these leaves...
It's sort of like us... There are things in our lives that we need to let go of... in order to make space for something new... some new life.... This experience of life has been good this year, or this decade... but what could show up if we let go of something?
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