“If you picked off one of the dead leaves and examined the leaf-stalk through a microscope, you would find that the old channel is silted up by a barrier invisible to the naked eye. From the first hour that the layer of separation begins…the leaf’s fate is sealed; there is never a moment’s reversal of the decision… ‘this old leaf shall die, and the new leaf shall live.’” ~ I. Lilias Trotter Fall just may be my favorite season. I love the day in late summer when, from one day