Rainbow Snippets*–Fall Out

The week started out nice. There was sun. There was warmth. And now it's cold, it's gloomy, and we had snow flurries today. Can we not do this, please? I really need to move to a warmer climate!

The sun through the window hit this basket of artificial fall leaves and made them glow! 

This snippet from Headphones: Fall Out is a chapter opening that starts out descriptive with Headphones reflecting on the changes in her life since the first of the year. I wrote this ten years ago, but it feels very much like the weather we're having now! 

The brittle leaves still hanging on the oak trees rattled around Headphones as the occasional gusts of wind blew her hair across her face. The trees were patchworks of fall colors–evergreens still wearing their green while some of the hardwoods were red and yellow, with many already naked and settled into their winter hibernation. It had been a damp day with thick fog rising with the dawn, and mist that turned into a light almost-drizzle. But it finally cleared, and the leaves swirled and spun in front of her. When had November happened? The neighbor’s lazy yellow cat sat on the porch, watching as she passed by, kicking up leaves in her wake. Snow flurries would eddy in the air soon.

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