Beauty

Almost all the leaves are gone now, thanks to the massive amounts of rain we had last week. I wish fall could stay longer, but it always ends like this. So here's to the leaves that are now on the ground, still beautiful in their own way.

I read a book once where a character comes into the world from heaven. Someone asks her if things are beautiful there and she says something like "Yes, but not in the same way things are beautiful here. Here, everything is beautiful because it eventually dies." I always remembered that since it's so true that things that don't last long are more beautiful.