The autumn air, still and cool, feels hushed and quiet, but the opposite is true. Largely unnoticed by human eyes, the Earth is teeming with both parting and renewing life as nature pieces together her winter blanket for cover and protection. It's a vivid tapestry in golds and browns and garnet and crimson stitched together in a rich crazy quilt covering the ground, embroidered with sunbeams, spiderwebs and fallen flowers of asters and goldenrod scattered like a constellation of stars across the cover of fallen leaves.

Bees. wasps and butterflies are the needles, sewing with invisible threads, darting and flitting across lawns and flowerbeds as they forage among autumn flowers, seeking sustenance for winter. Worker wasps, no longer needed to harvest insects for protein to feed their colon

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