bon voyage to summer

I chuckled while thinking of cars full of people headed north to New England and upstate
speeding to watch colored leaves fall as I rambled through the beauty of Pelham Bay Park where
a brisk breeze blew across the lagoon and into the forest where
anglos, latinos, blacks and asians, alone like me,
or in units of varying integers passed and enjoyed the day
nodding their hellos to fellow seasonal naturalists
who also walked not hiked, and
none of whom sported a lick of LL Bean outdoor gear. 
The leaves were just beginning a riot of color diffusion above the peace
gathering themselves, brushing against one another, building to an explosive burst of color that will need
a week or two before, 
spent -
they fall.
The only honking came from geese in a landing pattern.