It Don't Look Like They're Here to Deliver the Mail

Daylight declines and the leaves fall. We imagine it is frost that colors then looses them, because the heat declines more or less during the same weeks as the erosion of daylength reaches the critical limit for each deciduous species, but it is latitude, not lack of warmth that brings on the fall. Then, in the last few days of October and through as much of November as might remain unencumbered by snow, our landscape is made by wind.