Three days ago, I took this photo in the forest where we walk, I saw the beautiful mixing of colors at the crown of these proud trees, high up in the sky. This morning, all of the leaves were gone, it was a last goodbye to one season of the forest, hello to another. Way up there, at their crowns, the trees get the light and strength to grow and live. This cycle will halt now, and the trees will do what we do, pull inward and respond to the cycles of our mother, the earth. I was grateful for this last goodbye for this season of color, and light, and regeneration.