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In both hemispheres, day and night are the same length. The term “equinox” comes from the Latin words for “equal night.” Nights gradually become longer than days in the northern hemisphere after the autumnal equinox. As the earth moves onward in its orbit, its northern half begins to tilt increasingly away from the sun.
Temperatures drop. Trees take on magic touches of color. Dew is heavy, and then a filigree of frost traces a pattern on the ground to delight the early riser.
“IN MAINE,” wrote Thomas Wolfe, “the frost comes sharp and quick as driven nails, just for a week or so the woods, all of the bright leaves, flare up.”
James Whitcomb Riley wrote about Indiana where boys could listen to the “husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn” as well as the “raspin’ of the tangled leaves as golden as the morn.”
Helen Hunt Jackson, the California novelist and poet, added blue to autumn’s palette: “O suns and skies and clouds of June,/ And
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