Autumn 2012: Celebration of the season
The arrival of autumn brings falling leaves; vibrant and rich jewel-toned colors across the landscape; a distinct change in temperature; festivals and some celebrations. The world often marks the September event as special. Throughout history, the first day of autumn has been considered a good time to take stock of the year’s successes and failures. A myth in many cultures holds that some mystical forces let us stand eggs on their ends for a short time immediately before or after the exact time of the equinox. In Greek mythology, autumn begins when the goddess Persephone returns to the underworld to live with her kidnapper, Hades – in repayment of the six pomegranate seeds she illicitly ate. Here, a look at a diverse collection of autumn photographs. – Paula Nelson ( 65 photos total)
A Red Deer stag roars in the early morning light in Richmond Park, Oct. 10, 2012 in London, England. 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 known as bucks. The larger males can also be seen clashing antlers with rival males. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)#
Competitors take part in the annual conker championships during the Hampstead Heath Heritage Festival, which is a celebration of old England, on Hampstead Heath, London, Oct. 7, 2012. Conkers is a traditional British children's game played in early autumn using the seeds of horse-chestnut trees with a piece of string threaded through them. Players take turns hitting their opponent's conker until one of the conkers is destroyed. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press)#
The "Seepyramide" (Lake Pyramid) reflects in a lake, Sept. 25, 2012 at the Fuerst-Pueckler-Park in Branitz near Cottbus, eastern Germany. Count Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pueckler-Muskau, a German nobleman who is known for his passion for landscape gardening, is buried in the interior of the pyramid. (Patrick Pleul/AFP/GettyImages)#
Visitors walk past a colourful display of flowers and plants at the Flower Dome in Gardens by the Bay as part of the Autumn harvest display, Singapore, Oct. 2012. The 850 square metre Flower Field with 18,000 blooms for the Autumn Harvest display, includes the blooms of Sunflowers, Marigolds, Lavenders, Heucheras, Calla Lilies, Tomatoes, Kales and Chrysanthemums. (Roslan Rahmanroslan/AFP/GettyImages)#
A restaurant worker cleans beneath lanterns hanging above a street in advance of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Beijing, Sept. 26, 2012. Traditionally recognized as a symbol of good luck, red lanterns are hung during the Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on the 15th day of the lunar new year. (Ed Jones/AFP/GettyImages)#
Visitors tour the illuminated decorations of small bulbs set up at popular Victoria Park to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Kong, Sept. 27, 2012. Like ancient Chinese poets, Hong Kong people appreciate the beauty of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on Sept. 30 this year. (Kin Cheung/Associated Press)#
Two school-boys play near large decorative lanterns at a Mid-Autumn Festival carnival in Hong Kong, Sept. 29, 2012. Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the lunar new year, this year- September 30, 2012, is traditionally a time when family and friends gather in the evening to celebrate, eat mooncakes and to appreciate the moon. (Aaron tam/AFP/GettyImages)#
Residents dressed as movie characters chat during festivities for Saint Michael the Archangel in the town of Zacualpan de Amilpas, on the outskirts of Cuernavaca, Sept. 30, 2012. According to local media, the community held a carnival in honor of their patron, Saint Michael the Archangel, to thank him for the autumn harvest. (Margarito Perez Retana/Reuters)#
Dairy farmer, Gerard Bilan, holds a decoration he made to adorn one of his cows, Sept. 29, 2012 before joining the Desalpe near Charmey. The Desalpe is an annual traditionnal Swiss festival marking the descent of cattle herds from their summer Alpine pastures to valleys at the beginning of autumn. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/GettyImages)#
A masked artist prepares to perform a traditional dance on the first day of the week-long Indra Jatra festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Sept. 27, 2012. Indra Jatra festival, which is celebrated by both Hindus and Buddhists, marks the end of the monsoon season and beginning of autumn. (Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press)#
Ladybugs (Coccinellidae) walk on the fruit during the harvest of Burgundy grapes in a vineyard of the Thueringer Weingut Bad Sulza near Sonnendorf, central Germany, Sept. 19, 2012. The harvest began with the start of autumn in the vineyards in the Saale-Unstrut area. The viticulture in the Saale-Unstrut-district has a tradition of more than 800 years. (Jens Meyer/Associated Press)#
Artist Frank Grenier holds the crystal glass dish he has engraved with a recreation of the Bayeux Tapestry, Oct. 1, 2012 in Glastonbury, England. The Bayeaux Tapestry engraving - which took six months to engrave and depicts the 58 panels of the tapestry with English description of each major event - is the highlight of Glastonbury Abbey's autumn exhibition, Reflections On Glass at the Abbey. The exhibition is particularly timely as new research, led by the University of Reading, revealed earlier this year that finds at the Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence for Anglo-Saxon glass-making in Britain. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)#
The Krasnoyarsk hydro electric power station and dam is surrounded with colourful autumn foliage of the Siberian taiga, some 45 km (28 miles) south of the city of Krasnoyarsk, Sept. 22, 2012. The dam and power station on the Yenisei River, one of the world's largest hydro electric projects, was completed in 1972. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)#
A European peacock butterfly (Inachis io) unfolds its wings in the sun on a blossom in a garden in Frankfurt an der Oder, eastern Germany, Sept. 20, 2012. Meteorologists forecast sinking temperatures for that week, that ended the astronomical beginning of autumn, Sept. 22, 2012. (Patrick Pleul/AFP/GettyImages)#
Ears of field corn lay in piles along a roadside during the autumn corn harvest on a farm on the edge of Kaesong, North Korea. It has been a tough year for North Korea's farmers, who grappled with an extended dry spell in the spring, followed by heavy rains from a series of summer storms and typhoon. The U.N. is launching a field mission across North Korea to gauge the state of the food situation. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)#
Visitors to the annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show admire and discuss prize winning flowers, Sept. 14, 2012 in Harrogate, England. Garedeners from across Britain descend on the Yorkshire Showground every Autumn to show off their prized crops of vegetables, flowers and plants in the hope of a coveted award from the judges. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)#
Giant vegetable grower, Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, poses with his world record-breaking onion that weighed in at 18 lbs 1oz, beating his previous world record by almost 2 ounces, at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, Sept. 14, 2012 in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)#
Weightlifter Jonathan Walker, from Harrogate, poses as he lifts a marrow weighing 119 lbs 12 ounces, which won the Giant Marrow Class in the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, Sept. 14, 2012 in Harrogate, England. The giant marrow was grown by Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, who won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)#
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