The Green Leaves of Summer
by Jon Burch Photography
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Title
The Green Leaves of Summer
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture
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A time to be reaping
A time to be sowing
The green leaves of summer
Are calling me home
'Twas so good to be young then
In the season of plenty
When the catfish were jumping
As high as the sky
A time just for planting
A time just for plowing
A time to be courting
A girl of your own
'Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
And to stand by your wife
At the moment of birth
A time to be reaping
A time to be sowing
A time just for living
A place for to die
'Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
Now the green leaves of summer
Are calling me home
'Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
Now the green leaves of summer
Are calling me home
- The Brothers Four
The Green Leaves of Summer are turning yellow gold rapidly. It happens as the days get shorter, especially after the passing of the autumn equinox in September. The thing of my bob that does the job is the decreasing amounts of solar energy that becomes available as the sun appears to move further south along the horizon.
The tilt of the Earths spin axis is inclined to the vertical plane of its orbit by about 23.5 degrees. As the earth travels around the sun throughout the year, the sun appears to follow a definite path in the sky that astronomers call the ecliptic. When the sun, traveling along the ecliptic, crosses below the plane of the earth's orbit or ecliptic plane, the amount of solar insolation received by the northern hemisphere decreases daily until around the first day of winter in December. From that point on, the sun appears to move back north on the horizon and the daylight hours get progressively longer as spring approaches. The opposite is true in the southern hemisphere. Long story short, don't miss the fall colors during this special time of year.
Image copyright Jon Burch Photography
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October 5th, 2014
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