The Exquisite chemistry of autumn colours 

Are not caused by death or decay

But rather exist dormant within the leaf it’s entire life

And are only revealed

When their work of generating green chlorophyll is done

And these inner colours are revealed in translucent luminosity.

Autumn colours – something understood Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
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