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It’s that time again. The time when everything changes. The mornings have that cool, ‘ I’m seriously thinking about snowing’ feel to them, the wind has a new bite that reminds you to check to see that you still fit into your down jacket, and of course there are those magnificent colors. The colors are just starting to change and with each new brilliant orange or red or yellow that occurs you see the ending of one season in preparation for the new one to come. The ending is bittersweet because of the beauty of what is passing, the season that seemed that it would never end as you drifted through the long summer, knowing change was coming, sure of its certainty, but denying the reality because summer was too glorious, but, end it will. As always there are a few who do not go quietly into that dark night, but the change is inevitable and as this season passes we can look forward to that new one we call spring, the one with all it’s fantastic opportunities, the one that is only a few snow storms away.