Autumn is a season of frosty mornings, festivals, and of course, spectacular foliage. Around the north, people have begun to see their breath form misty clouds in the chilly morning air, leaves are reaching peak color, and animals are on the move. Collected here is a second group of images of this year's autumn from around the northern hemisphere. Be sure to see Part I as well.
Three year-old Annie Wood rides her scooter in front of changing autumn leaves in Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath in southern England, on October 17, 2012.#
A Red Deer stag roars in the early morning light in Richmond Park in London, England, on October 10, 2012. Autumn sees the start of the "Rutting" season where the large Red Deer stags can be heard roaring and barking in an attempt to attract females.#
Sam Bauer, 5, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, loads another pumpkin into his wagon during a harvest festival at the Country Apple Orchard in Harrisburg, South Dakota, on Saturday, October 6, 2012.#
Raindrops gather on the autumn leaves of small bushes in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 12, 2012. After a record-breaking dry spell since August, a welcomed several days of rain moved in over the area.#
Fog covers the Inntal valley as the famous Nordkette mountains are seen on a sunny autumn day in the western Austrian province of Tyrol, on October 23, 2012.#
A girl stops to look at hundreds of jack o' lanterns at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 8, 2012. Around 5,000 carved pumpkins are on display for this year's Jack-o'-lantern Spectacular, one of the nation's largest jack-o'-lantern shows.#
A jack o' lantern interpretation of Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night," commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For at least three months each Fall, pumpkin carvers Marc Evan and Chris Soria, of New York City, relinquish their illustrator occupations to carve fantastical pumpkins full-time and become the Maniac Pumpkin Carvers.#
A white swan swims in a pond at the Summer Garden in central St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 19, 2012. The Summer Garden, once a favorite place of the Russian Tsars, is now a popular place to rest for locals and tourists.#
Cows graze in front of the Rosengarten mountain massif (3,000 meters) in the Dolomites near Bozen, Autonomous Region of South Tyrol, northern Italy's German-Italian speaking region, on October 21, 2012.#
Cranes, on the way to their winter rest places, near the village of Linum about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, on October 21, 2012. Thousands of migratory birds rest near the village before their trip to the south.#
A leaf falls from a tree in light breeze as foliage begins to change with the fall weather at Eagle Rock Reservation, on October 18, 2012, in Montclair, New Jersey.#
An operator drives a mechanical harvester in a cranberry marsh, on October 5, 2012, near Warrens, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is expected to harvest 4.5 million barrels of cranberries in 2012, producing more than 50 percent of the world's cranberry supply.#
AP Photo/Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association, Andy Manis
Early cherry blossoms in Tokyo, heavy snowfall in California, a festival of lights in Croatia, emotional displays at the Academy Awards, a heavy frost in England, and much more
