Autumn is only for photographs, not living through. Even in the desert you'll come across an old leaf of some kind, rejected, and fallen. Perhaps we should all take up the seasonal calendar of the Sàmi people, the reindeer herders of Lappland, who have eight seasons.
without their leaves
the trees bare their nature
back in the cabin
she waits in a copper bath
for the birch bark scent
The bark of the birch tree makes good tea, as well, mixed with pine needles. But both work best on her as a forest fragrance.