“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
As I walked into the woods this morning with @melissag, I was stunned by the beautiful colors already beginning to change and I couldn't help but think of that beautiful Yoko Ono lyric above.
The warm day told me that summer was still hanging on, and I'm not sure I'm ready for it to end. But I felt my smile curling up as I looked to the trees and got a thrill thinking about watching the neon yellows, pumpkin-y oranges, and deep reds begin their creep back into each drying leaf. The smell of the forest floor... old foliage being transformed into new compost... the feeling of it under your bare feet... it's priceless. Sometimes all you can do is stand back and marvel at the beauty surrounding you.
Photos taken with my Nexus 6P phone near Derryfield Park in Manchester, New Hampshire on September 8, 2016. Wish I'd brought my Canon with me!
About me
My name is Randy Clemens and I am the author of The Sriracha Cookbook, The Veggie-Lover’s Sriracha Cookbook, and co-author of The Craft of Stone Brewing Co. I am a graduate of the California School of Culinary Arts and am featured in the award-winning Sriracha—a documentary film by Griffin Hammond.
In early 2015, I moved from Los Angeles to participate in the Free State Project, a geopolitical movement getting 20,000+ libertarians/voluntaryists to relocate to New Hampshire to decrease the size and draconian reach of the government while protecting individual liberties.
You can read more about me on my Steemit introduction post! And if one (or more) of the things I've written about here tickles your fancy, you can follow my musings on Twitter via @SrirachaBook and @RandyClemensEsq.