When the summer fatigue starts setting in after active holidays, busy schedules, hikes, catching up with friends and frequent BBQs, nature presents us with the most beautiful season to slow down and slip into a mellow and snug comfort. It’s the weather for sweater, it’s the season that evokes poetry, it’s the celebration of ‘letting go’. The leaves age into yellows, oranges and reds, and fall with grace to lay out a colourful carpet for you. The sun softens. The mist falls. There’s glory all around.
Switzerland does autumn like no other. Lakeside promenades, valleys, mountains and neighbourhoods are resplendent in various hues. The Alpine landscape looks nothing short of a painter’s imagination in bright pastels.
Take a visual journey through the fall foliage in various parts of the country, with an effort to do as much justice to the beauty as a Samsung phone camera allows.
Photo credits: ©Ipsita Barua
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye”. – Unknown
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”– L.M. Montgomery
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”– John Burrows
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”– Virginia Woolf
“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”– George Eliot
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”– Oscar Wild
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” – Unknown
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” – Shira Tamir
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