Facing the Long Goodby

Here in Florida, we don’t experience the changes of Autumn as dramatically as people elsewhere in the nation, particularly in the northern states. Still, there is no getting around the fact that the coming of winter is literally “in the air,” whether it’s a puff of cooler breeze, the rays of the setting sun slanting lower in the sky, or the sight of a dead leaf falling from its branch and spiraling to the ground.