One last overview of autumn, my favorite season. Across the Northern Hemisphere, temperatures are dropping, harvests are in motion, festivals are being held to celebrate the change of season, animals are returning to their winter grounds, and of course, viewers are enjoying the explosion of colors among the leaves. Collected here are some more images from this year’s autumn. (See also, Fall Is in the Air, Part I.)
Fall Is in the Air, Part II
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Colored by the setting sun, the European starlings mass in the sky in the town of Rakov, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Minsk, Belarus, on October 4, 2016. #
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, autumn's colors peak on hardwood trees in a cemetery near the Congregational Church, on October 10, 2016, in Cumberland, Maine. #
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Laurie Schellinger reads as she waits for customers while selling pumpkins at the Shenendehowa United Methodist Church on October 4, 2016, in Clifton Park, New York. #
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McDonald's Japan's "Halloween Choco Fries - Pumpkin & Choco Sauce", served with pumpkin and chocolate sauces, in a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, on September 29, 2016. #
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Farmhand Krzysztof Osiel picks Kaiser Wilhelm apples while standing on a ladder in a tree at the Apfelhof Waehnert apple farm in Hoppenrade on October 14, 2016 near Loewenberg, Germany. #
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Honor guards wait in front of autumnal colored plants for the arrival of the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin on October 14, 2016. #
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Farmers and their cattle cross the Koenigs lake on a float during the so-called "Almabtrieb", the return from the mountain pastures, on October 1, 2016 in a valley near Schoenau village in the southern German Alps. #
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Eli McLaughlin, 7, kicks snow off a dock at Serene Lakes near Soda Springs, California, on October 17, 2016. A weekend storm brought rain to Northern California, and snow to the Sierra Nevadas. #
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