Autumn’s peak: The sky, the angle of the sun and the Japanese Maple leaves created the most vibrant in-person vision for only a few minutes. We stood there soaking in the amazing show of colors, light and reflection. Even now, in December, I continue to reflect on the vibrancy that my memory captured, but the camera did not. That is the beauty, to see wonder in the everydayness and to draw it (the beauty, the wonder) inward.

Those leaves are gone now but what a delight to receive the nourishment of brief beauty.