Dear Friends,
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Albert Camus described autumn as “a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Yesterday marked the autumn equinox (from the Latin “aequus,” equal, and “nox,” night). The equinox is one of the two times a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in nearly equal daylight and darkness at most locations on Earth. It is a day of astronomical balance—the Earth's axis tilts neither toward nor away from the sun. And, of course, it marks the official start of the autumn season in the Northern Hemisphere.