Inquiry #5: Beauty in the Boldness

I am recently new to the shores of the west coast in British Columbia, and so this is my first autumn season watching the seasons change in a coastal region. I have spent time living in England so I thought it would be quite similar with the rainy season and it getting so very gray outside, but I have been pleasantly surprised by the beauty of the changing of seasons here. With it now being the second week of Novemebr I feel I have truly experienced the changing of the seasons of a coastal region, and it has been beautiful. It started out very gradually, with just a few things changing at one. In fact I thought things were never going to really change because it was so hot the first few weeks of September, but then gradually things started to shift. The mornings became just a little bit colder and had more fog, and there was the classic changing of the leaves as well. I found myself often looking down as all the colourful leaves had dropped to the ground. It is funny how as humans we have January as our start of change; a new year, new challanges or goals ect. But I find the majority of change happens in september (maybe thats because I have been a student for to long haha). I also find that sometimes I look at a rainy season as gloomy, but I think my opinion is changing and the rainy season or the season of change has shown me how colourful things shine in grey skies or dull backgrounds. I was walking along my campus and I had to stop to take a tree that I was so gobsmacked by. It was a brilliant shade of red and it was planted all by itself in the courtyard of a university building. It had been raining all day which sometimes that can get me in the brain pattern of “keep your head down, get to where you need to go.” However, this beautiful tree was so vibrant in it’s colour on such a wet and gray day that I had to just stop and appreciate it. It was a good reminder to just stop, look up and take it all in, all the change, all the beauty. What has made you stop and and look up this week?

Photos Taken By Carlee Cleveland