“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call “aware”–an almost untranslatable word meaning something like “beauty tinged with sadness.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

A fall scene in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California.

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