October Arrives

October arrives so unlike the long dry hot summer of 2015. Mornings are damp and cool with dewy drips of somberness and soft shadows fading off into the background. A blustery chilling wind races through the trees rushing gray clouds quickly across the skies. The cry of crickets is lost in the oncoming night and the nakedness of nature disrobes in the dark. The dress and glory of spring seems lost forever hidden in the brown withered grass below. Blue jays shriek and cardinals call out shrill lonely spectres seeking refuge from the change. Autumn reaches in with cold and icy fingers to draw shadows in the twilight as the sun falls fast asleep. In the harvest moonlight leaves will shed from their branches and the world will draw its blanket tight against it's face. October arrives quietly, then tenacious and cold takes its hold upon the earth.