Juan walked down the street with a skip in his step, drinking in the newly crisp air, stepping on the first of the fallen leaves of the season – they would crunch so much more satisfactorily in just a few weeks – and he couldn’t help whistling cheerfully thinking about how he liked the almost tangible smell of change that was the essence of both spring and fall.
yes.
I’m sure the poets in Australia are bitter that we don’t call Autumn ‘Fall’. It conjurs up such immediate imagery. At least, in the hands of a good wordsmith it does.