Autumn

Definitions

a time when many-colored leaves fall from trees, your feelings about and association with this season
the end of summertime in which the days become shorter and the temperature cools
perhaps a sense that a warm relationship is drawing to a close and it is time to prepare for a period of "hibernation" or solitude and introversion
the coming of adulthood, a time when you expect (or are expected) to reach maturity and bear fruit
the feelings you have about your own or others' expectations for this phase of your life
a period of social activity and extroversion when the products of your life's earlier years can be reaped and assimilated, or (conversely) a period of greater introversion and passivity