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9.27.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Realized Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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  Realize a reading service intended for people who are blinder
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  of other disabilities that make it difficult to read prim material.
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  Today we will be reading from various books on the autumn.
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  Your reader today is Dianne. We will begin with the
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  book There was an Old Lady who Swallowed some Leaves.
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  It was published by Scholastic Incorporated, Cartwill and Associate Logos
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  or Trademarks registered trademarks of Scholastic Incorporated. It has a
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  copyright ear of twenty ten and the author of the
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  book is Lucille con Landrou. There was no lady who
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  swallowed some leaves. I don't know why she swallowed those leaves.
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  Perhaps she'll sneeze. There was no lady who swallowed a shirt.
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  It didn't hurt to swallow that shirt. She swallowed the
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  shirt to fill it with leaves. I don't know why
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  she swallowed the leaves. Perhaps she'll snee There wasn't no
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  lady who swallowed a pumpkin. She wasn't a pumpkin to
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  swallow that pumpkin. She swallowed pumpkin to wear the shirt.
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  She swallowed the shirt to fill it with leaves. I
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  don't know why she swallowed the leaves. Perhaps she'll sneeze.
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  There was no lady who swallowed a pole. She was
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  on a row when she swallowed that pole. She swallowed
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  the poe to prop up the pumpkin. She swallowed pumpkin
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  to wear the shirt. She swallowed the shirt to fill
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  it with leaves. I don't know why she swallowed the leaves.
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  Perhaps she'll sneeze. There was no lady who swallowed some pants.
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  She started to dance when she swallowed the pants. She
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  swallowed the pants to cover the pole. She swallowed the
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  poe to prop up the pumpkin. She swallowed the pumpkin
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  to wear the shirt. She swallowed the shirt to fill
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  it with leaves. I don't know why she swallowed the leaves.
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  Perhaps she'll sneeze. There wasn't no lady who swallowed a rope.
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  She didn't mope. She swallowed that rope. She swallowed the
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  rope to type the pants. She swallowed the pants to
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  cover the pope. She swallowed the poe to prop up
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  the pumpkin. She swallowed the pumpkin to wear the shirt.
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  She swallowed the shirt to fill it with leaves. I
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  don't know why she swallowed the leaves. Perhaps she'll sneeze.
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  There was no lady who swallowed some hay. She didn't
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  say why she swallowed that hay, but she did it
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  with ease, and then she started to sneeze. A show,
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  happy fall. Our next book is hocus Pocus. It's fall,
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  and it was published by Abram's Apple Seed. It has
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  a copyright ear of twenty sixteen and it was written
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  by Anne Sibley O'Brien. Summer days begin to cool aleca zam,
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  it's time for school. Spiky pods are brown and dried,
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  open sesame clouds inside geese and ducks prepared to fly,
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  zip and zing there in the sky. Leaves on trees
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  are green and bright. Abra cadabra. What a sight. Chili
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  Gusts toss leaves around chizam a blanket for the ground.
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  Busy squirrels fill their cheeks abba zaba food for weeks.
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  Bens of fruit are piled high, iggly, piggly. We made
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  a pie, pick a pumpkin, orange and fat razzle dazzle.
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  Look at that. Chipmunks dick their burrels deep. Some salab them.
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  They're fast asleep put on a hat a wooly sweater
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  press still change. Ooh that feels better. Wrap up tight
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  with winter near hocus Pocus fall is here. Our next
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  book is titled Autumn Across America and it was published
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  by Hypering Books for Children. It has a copyright year
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  of nineteen ninety three and the author is Seymour Simon.
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  Autumn across America is a season of memory and change,
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  and early autumn the days can still be warm in summery,
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  tree leaves still green, insects and birds still octave. But
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  as the season advances, daytime grows shorter, darkness comes earlier,
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  and the nights grow coder Green leaves change to shades
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  of red and yellow, and the colors race from tree
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  to tree like flames in a forest fire. Later, the
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  leaves will fall from the tree trees and flutter down
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  to the ground in swirling drifts that crackle underfoot. Autumn
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  is harvest time for apples and pears, nuts and berries,
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  pumpkins and squash. Is the season for wild plants to
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  release countless seeds that will lie protected in their coats
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  during the cold months of winter and sprout when the
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  warmer days of spring return. Onmous, when insects lay their eggs,
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  squirrel store food, and birds fly south. Autumn is a
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  time for remembering that the seasons follow a great cycle,
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  and they're changing and always come back to where they were.
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  The seasons change because of the way Earth's axis is tilted,
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  not because it's closer to the sun and warm weather.
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  In fact, Earth is actually closer to the Sun when
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  winter begins in the northern hemisphere than it is when
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  summer begins. Earth spins or rotates on its axis, an
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  imaginary line that runs through the north and south post.
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  One spin of Earth on its axis makes one day.
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  The axis is tilted a little to one side and
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  an angle of twenty three point five degrees. For every
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  three hundred and sixty five times Earth spends on its axis,
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  it also completes one revolution around the Sun, what we
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  call a year. When the north poe is tilted towards
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  the Sun, the northern hemisphere has summer. At that time,
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  the south poe is tilted away from the Sun, so
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  the southern hemisphere has winter. Autumn is the season of
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  change from summer to winter. The official first day of
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  Autumn honor about September twenty third is called the autumn
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  autumn mental equinox. The equinox is when day and night
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  are most nearly equal and length. But the autumn season
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  as we think of it in America begins when leaves
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  and northern states begin to change color by September and October.
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  In the northeast along the Canadian border, desuituous trees begin
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  their magnificent display of color during August and September. The
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  brilliant yellows, flaming reds, and dazzling oranges sweep southward into
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  New England and the Middle Atlantic states as autumn progresses.
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  Susensuous trees are those that should their leaves at the
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  end of the growing season. Autumn is called fall because
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  of the falling leaves. The forest of birches, the aspens
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  and the poplars that cover the hills and mountains, and
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  the sycamores that grow along the banks of streams all
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  change from green to shades of yellow early in the season.
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  American beach brightens into luminous gold, sassafras and American mountain
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  ash become glowing orange. Yellows are the most common leaf colors,
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  but reds are perhaps the most brilliant. Across the valleys
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  and hills of New England, sugar maples become red orange
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  and gold sumacs turned fiery scarlet, poison ivy leaves become
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  a richer bronze red. By the middle of October, oaks
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  change from green to yellow, orange or bronze. Most often
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  in the northeast, the blazing colors are all mixed together,
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  as in this October view of the Catskill Mountains of
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  New York State. In early autumn, thousands upon thousands of
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  snow geese take to the air in a twenty five
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  hundred mile journey from their breeding grounds in the eastern
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  Canadian Arctic to wintering grounds in Middle Atlantic states from
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  New Jersey to North Carolina. By mid autumn, the geese
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  begin arriving along the Atlantic coast in flocks of several
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  dozen to several hundred. The greatest number arrive Invember, when
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  as many as one million birds may be found in
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  coastal salt marshes from New Jersey to Delaware. If the
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  weather states mild, huge flocks will remain all winter, but
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  a hard freeze will drive the birds farther south. The
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  snow geese mix with many other kinds of migratory water
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  foul including Canada blue and Brant geese, pond ducks such
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  as mallards, black ducks, green wind tills, pintails and wedge owns,
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  and scalps, and other diving ducks. Important to the survival
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  of these birds are the more than four hundred and
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  fifty National Wildlife Refugees located all over the United States
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  from Florida to Alaska. More than two dozen of these
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  refugees in the middle of Atlantic States offer safe nesting
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  and feeding grounds in heavily populated areas. Without these refugees,
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  it would be difficult for huge flocks of birds, such
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  as the snow geese along the Jersey Shore, to survive
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  their annual southern migration. Across the Midwest, there seem to
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  be as many insects in early autumn as there are
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  during the height of summer. Clusters of flies and nants
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  dance in the sunlight, Crickets narronade the night, and cicadas
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  take up the insect course during the day. But as
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  the days become shorter and cooler, insects gradually begin to disappear. Beetles, termites,
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  and other ground dwelling insects migrate not north to south
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  like birds, but up to down. They go from above
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  ground to protective places beneath logs and rocks, or they
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  burrow deep within the soil. Water dwelling insects migrate from
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  above the water to below it, or they travel from
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  shallow to deep water. For many other insects, getting ready
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  for winter means entering a different life stage. Some, such
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  as the prae mantis, lay their eggs in a protective
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  egg case and then die. The eggs stay the winter
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  and hatch in the spring. The wooly bear caterpillar is
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  the larval stage of a tiger moth. In autumn, it
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  spends a protective cocoon of silk and attaches itself to
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  a twigger leaf. Inside the cocoon, the larval catap pillar
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  becomes a poopa. The pupa is motionless, but its body
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  tissues are changing, and in the spring it will emerge
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  as an adult moth. Autumn is the season when plants
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  produce and scater seeds. Far afield seeds are life packages
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  to future generations. They contain an embryo or young plant,
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  and a supply of food. Most seeds are also enclosed
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  in predictive coat that safeguards them during the harsh winter
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  weather so they can sprout in the spring. Seeds are travelers.
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  Some are hitchhikers and are covered by birds that stick
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  to clothing and the fur of animals that brush against them.
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  These seeds have descriptive names such as stick tights, beggar ticks, catchweed,
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  and grip grass. Other seeds are found in pulpy fruits
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  such as cherries and blueberries. The fruits are eaten by birds, squirrels,
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  and other animals, and then the seeds are avoided in
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  distant places. Still, other seeds are shot from ripening seed pods,
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  such as jewelweed or drop grolling to the ground like
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  winged maple or elm seeds, but the purpose. The most
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  beautiful autumn seeds come from the common milkweed plants that
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  grow in open metals and vacant lots. Within a milkweed
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  pod a rows of golden brown seeds, each with a
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  tuft of silken threads. When a pod splits open in October,
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  only a few seeds at a time are released. Their
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  silken parachutes catch the fenous breeze and they sail off
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  to unknown destinations. Autumn is not only time for scattering,
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  but also the traditional time when farmers gather their crops
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  corn and wheat, grapes and pears. Vegetables in US and
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  even fall flowers are harvested in abundance across the country.
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  A dozen different kinds of apples with names such as
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  red Delicious, Macintosh, grainny Smith, and Northern spy are regularly
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  harvested in apple orchards across the country. First full moon
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  after the autumnal equinox is called the harvest moon. When
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  the harvest moon rises, it moves in an angle close
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  to the horizon, behind the dark shadows of trees, hills,
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  and buildings. Compared to these familiar shapes, the harvest moon
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  looks enormous Because of pollen and other dust particles in
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  the air. The moon often takes on stringed shades of
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  orange and red and resembles a huge pumpkin in the sky.
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  Of all the American harvests, pumpkins may be the one
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  plant most associated with autumn. These brightly colored gords grow
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  on plant vines that stretch along the ground for thirty feet.
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  Giant pumpkins may weigh as much as two hundred pounds each.
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  Of course, we eat pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds, but
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  we also make jockal lanners from pumpkins, and without those
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  funny lighted orange faces, how could we have Halloween all
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  across the Midwest and along the country. Rowing Upper Michigan
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  leaves fall to the ground in late October in early November.
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  Leaf color varies a great deal from place to place
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  in year to year. Within a grove of trees, one
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  or two may show much brighter colors than the rest,
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  whereas other trees simply go brown. Droughts and insect damage
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  can result in a poor leaf display in the autumn.
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  An unusual warm October is also bad for color, since
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  each night the trees use most of the sugar produced
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  in their leaves, so not enough sugar is left for
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  color to develop. Frost is mainly responsible for freeing the
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  leaves from the trees. On a cold night, ice crystals
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  form and break the woody fibers that hold the leaf
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  to the twig. Then, when the ice melts in the
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  early morning sun, the leaves whirl to the ground in
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  a shower of red, yellows and browns. On the ground,
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  the colorful pigments break down and all the leaves turn
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  in ontamental brown, but the fallen leaves are not wasting.
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  In nature, they provide food and shelter for a host
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  of insects and other small animals. They also provide food
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  for mushrooms and other fungi that lack chlorophyll and cannot
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  make their own food. Finally, the leaves decay and their
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  minerals return to the soil, helping to make it more
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  fertile for future plant generations. In late autumn, many animals
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  live in and about the hot springs and geysers found
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  in yellow National Yellowstone National Park. Even the COLDUS weather, insects, snails,
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  and fish remain active in the warm rivers and streams
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  in Yellowstone. Birds, elk, moose, spear, and bison also gather
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  near the warm waters as autumn gross Coder. Yellowstone has
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  about two hundred active geysers. The park sits atop a
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  huge collapsed volcano that still provides underground heat. A geyser
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  erupts when its reservoir of trapped water is heated above
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  the boiling point and suddenly turns to steam, ejecting hot
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  water and steam through a vent to the surface. A
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  complete geyser cycle may take minutes, hours, days, or even years.
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  At one time, millions of bison migrated south across the
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  American plains every autumn. Native Americans ate their meat and
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  used their hides to make clothing and teepees. The bison
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  was also important in their rituals and religious beliefs, but
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  the settlers who moved west viewed the bison as a nuisance.
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  They killed them in huge numbers, and by eighteen ninety
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  only a few hundred bison were left. Several years later,
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  bison were protected by the federal government. Nowadays, thousands of
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  bisons lived in preserves and ranches, and several herds live
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  in the yellow Stone National Park. If red and yellow
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  are the main colors of autumn and the east, then
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  yellow and dark green are the main colors of autumn
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  and the mountains and hills of the West. On mountains
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  and hillsides, you often see a grove of bright yellow
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  quaking acidens cutting through a forested dark green spruce and
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  fur trees like a slash of gold and white. Quaking
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  aspens get their name from their oval leaves that shake
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  even in gentle breezes. Aspens belong to a family of
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  deciduous trees called poplars. Poplars are found throughout most of America. Spruce,
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  fur pine, hemlock, cedar, and juniper are all members of
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  a group of non flowering trees called conifers. These trees
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  are caught on all across America, but are partricularly common
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  in the mountains and foothills of the Rockies. Conifers are
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  sometimes called evergreens because they do not drop their leaves
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  during any particular season. Conifers have narrow leaves called needles
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  that expose a far smaller surface than do leaves of
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  broad leaf trees. Less surface area, along with a waxy
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  coating on their needles, helps reduce conifer water loss in winter.
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  Because conifers keep their leaves year round, they remain active
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  and grow as soon as there is enough light when
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  the temperature becomes warm enough, typically in the low fifties.
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  Every autumn, beginning October and lasting until December, three thousand
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  or more, bald eagles gather in small groups along several
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  miles of the Chilcat River in the Alaska Chilcat Bald
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  Eagle Preserved This is the largest known gathering of bald
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  eagles anywhere in the world. The attraction for the eagles's food.
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  An autumn run of ten pounds salmon swim up the
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  river to spawn and die is the last salmon run
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  of the season, and eagles flock to the river from
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  hundreds of miles around. Warm upwelling water keeps part of
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  the Chilcat from freezing until late in the season. Eagles
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  wading into the water stabbed sharp talons into dead or
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  dying salmon and drag them into the land to feast
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  on the rich meat. Bald eagles can dive at one
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  hundred miles per hour and spot a fish in a
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  river from a mile away. This majestic bird became the
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  national symbol for the U States in seventeen eighty two.
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  At one time, bald eagles were common all across North America.
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  Now they are on the endangered Specie list in forty
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  three of the lower forty eight states because of pesticides,
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  illegal shooting, and habitat destruction. All the more reason that
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  in nineteen eighty two, Alaska declared a forty eight thousand
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  aggre stretch of the Chilcat River in its surroundings a
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  permanent preserve for the birds. On the western side of
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  the Olympic Mountains in Washington State. Late autumn is a
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  season of heavy rains, rising from sea level to as
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  high as eight thousand feet. The Olympics present a giant
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  rock barrier against moisture ladin winds off the ocean. The
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  sea winds rush up the mountain slopes cool suddenly and
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  drop their moisture as rain. At this time of the year,
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  the rain can last for days and the mid never
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  let up. About one hundred and forty five inches of
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  rainfall every year, roughly two billion gallons of water for
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  each square mile of land, more rainfall than any other
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  place in America. Yet only forty miles to the west
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  on the other side of the mountains is the driest
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  region north of southern California, with a yearly rainfall less
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  than seventeen inches. Towering Douglas firs, sic spruces, and western
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  hemlocks draped with shaggy mosses and green ferns grow near
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  one another. In the valleys of the Western Olympics. A
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  green carpet interweaved with dozens of different kinds of mosses
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  cover the ground. Small trees grow atop nurse logs, fallen
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  trees that decay increase soil beds in which ceilings take root.
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  Vine and big leaf maples turn red and yellow and
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  drop their leaves in the autumn, but the rainforest of
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  mostly conifer trees remains green and wet. Similar temperate rainforests
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  grow on the Pacific coast from Alaska to California, but
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  the Olympic grain Forest is the largest in North America.
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  All across America, monarch butterflies begin their autumn migrations when
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  temperatures begin to drop. The black and orange insects wing
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  their way south across the beaches of the East Coast,
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  over the Appalachians, along the flat farm lands of the Midwest,
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  and even across the Great deserts of the Southwest. The
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  Marne arc is a good flyer, moving from ten to
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  fifteen miles per hour, traveling eighty miles or more in
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  a day. Some mon arcs migrate as far as eight
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  hundred eighteen hundred miles from north to south. They will
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  spend the winter in large groups in gathering spots in Florida, Texas,
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  and California. Pacific Grove at the southern end of Monterey
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  Bay in California, the monarchs begin arriving in huge numbers
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  in mid October. They cluster together on trunks and large branches.
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  By the thousands and tens of thousands things folded. Most
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  of butterflies hang motionless, packed closely together, looking like clumps
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  of gray brown leaves. The monarchs stay about five months.
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  In March, the surviving adults, along with some of their
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  offspring born in the surrounding area, will migrate back to
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  northern breeding areas. Autumn comes to an official inn on
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  or about December twenty first, the first day of winter
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  in the northern Hemisphere, but in the Northeast and Midwest,
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  autumn really seems to end in late November or early December,
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  when the piles of fallen leaves are already covered by
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  morning frost and ponds are beginning to freeze. Over on
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  the high mountains of the Western States, autumn ends even earlier,
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  with October snowfalls such as this one that doest bridal
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  veil fall in Yosemite National Park. Autumn is when leaves
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  change color and fall, Birds and insects migrate to warmer places.
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  Animals and plants prepare in different for the coming winter,
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  and summer. Crops are harvested from day to day, in
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  place to place across America. Autumn is the season of
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  the years, passing from the heat of green and gold
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  in summer days to the cold of silvery and frosty
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  winter nights. Our next story is called Winter in the
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  Fall and it was published by The Child's World. It
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  has copyright year of twenty seventeen and the author is
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  Jenna Lee Glissner. Cool Weather. It is a fall morning.
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  It is chilly. Fall weather is often cloudy and windy.
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  Fall comes after the warm summer temperatures drop. It gets
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  cold enough for frost. Frost forms on grass. Fall changes.
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  Cool weather changes plants. They stop growing. Leaves fall from trees,
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  Wind blows the leaves around. Animalst fill it gets colder.
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  Some grow more fur warmer clothes. People fill it get colder.
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  In fall two they wear jackets, They wear hats and mittens.
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  Fall weather gets colder and colder. Soon winter will be here.
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  Our next book is titled Autumn an Alphabet Acrosstic and
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  it was published by Clarion Books, a Hooton Mifflin Company
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  in print has a copyright ear of nineteen ninety seven
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  and it was written by Steve Shamner. Acorn. A single
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  seed can feed a squirrel or grow into a giant
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  oak that rains down new nuts. Every autumn. Barn bats
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  and owls roostom and empty nests corn come October, only
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  the harvested stalks remain in the fields. As the knights
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  turned frosty, dark day ins early and night lingers. A
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  cold rainfalls. As we kindle the fireplace, earth, every plant, animal,
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  and rock. The air itself turned slowly under heaven frost.
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  From the window, the rows of orange pumpkins, seen clothed
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  in thin white shawls. Guest gloves and coats hang under
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  the stairs. Some even lie upon the bed. So many
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  friends have come this cold and snowy Thanksgiving day. Horse
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  high on a windy heel, the rowing stallion snortss he
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  eyes the coming storm. Icicle in the north. Cones of
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  ice clean like whiskers to the eaves. Jam jars of
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  freshly made apple sauce, jelly and marmalades sit gleaming on
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  the kitchen shelf. Knit keeping hands busy, the needles quick
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  and inch by inch. A thick wool shawl appears, leaves.
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  Little remains on each maple, oak and aspen tree. Even
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  the grapevines have shriveled, ending another green season. Mouse moving
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  quickly over the bread boards and under the toaster, the
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  intruder stuffs both cheeks with crumbs to eat later, hiding
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  in the wall. North Now, cold winds come down out
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  of Canada, and rain turns to hail and then to snow.
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  Owl on sky, dark wings, the hunter needs no light
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  to find its prey. Pumpkin piled up in the market square,
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  baskets of pears, bushels of apples, kegs of cider, and
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  orange mountain in November's code quiet quilt slight heaped upon
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  the beds this icy evening to keep us warm, ripe
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  red apples and bushel baskets and the cellar soon to
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  become pies or apple sauce or shine and eaten on
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  the way to school Snow stillness now over all the
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  cold white world. Train the distant rumble of wheels in
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  the mournful wail of a whistle in the night universe.
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  Up beyond the nice sky and indigo darkness like velvet
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  embraces the farthest reaches of the mine. Sun, moon stars,
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  everything Village Venus glows brightly in the western sky beyond
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  the lights and laughter, and the busy going to and
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  fro of everyone in town. White winters almost here in
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  just in time, there's snow everywhere x the twelfth month
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  of the year, when the last leave has fallen, and
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  every plants tim withers or rest until May year. Yesterday,
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  December ended. Today more than just another month begins. Rejoice
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  zero z. Everyone is resting outside. It's freezing. This concludes
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  our children's story I have for today. Please join us
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  next time as we were reading more stories, fables and
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  fairy tales. Thank you for listening, and please stay tuned
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  for the Lex and Hero Leader on Radio I