Why Is Autumn the Best Season?

Autumn, the only season where you can watch the multicolored leaves fall and the unique chirping of birds in the fall. Fall is the best season because you don’t have wear thick jackets as the weather is not too hot or cold, sports could be a main exercise for you outside, and it’s a chance to spend with your family during special holidays. One of the advantages of the autumn weather is that you won’t get chilly or get overheated like the other seasons.

You won’t have to stay in all the time because the weather is perfect unlike summer when it’s too hot or too cold like in winter. There is something different about the feeling of wind when you open the door to go outside that begins the feeling of autumn. Sometimes it rains during the fall but that strengthens the feeling of this season. Also during the summer it’s soccer, baseball, football, and rugby season. Fall is a great time to watch and play these sports. You can go outside with your friends and family to go sporting outside in the autumn breeze.

Fall can make getting tackled by a huge jock a lot more fun. I’m not a huge fan of watching sports but I heard it’s what brings families and friends together in the fall. I wish I watched sports but I rather watch the thanksgiving parade. Holidays are one of the best ways to get together with your family and friends. Autumn holidays include Thanksgiving Day and Halloween. The Thanksgiving holiday is a four-day holiday over the weekend. Families and friends usually eat a special meal together (usually with a turkey as the main dish).

This meal also usually includes mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, several casseroles, and stuffing. Halloween is also a special holiday in the fall. Halloween is a holiday in many countries that is celebrated on the night of October 31st. Children wear costumes and they go to peoples’ homes saying “Trick or treat! ” to ask for candy and then people give it to them. This practice originally involved a threat. In this case the threat could be explained as: “Give me a treat or I will play a trick on you. ” Children today usually do not play tricks if they do not get treats.

However, some children still get up to mischief (pranks or things to make fun of people; like putting toilet paper in trees; writing on windows with soap or throwing eggs at peoples’ houses). For me autumn is when it all comes together The weather is usually the best of the year. The shadows lengthen. The grass green up and loves the cool nights and occasional moisture. The leaves turn gorgeous colors. There’s a crisp scent in the air. Pomegranates are in season. And sports, ah, yes, sports. It’s the best season for sports. That’s why Autumn is the best season.

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil by Claude Monet

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil The following is an analysis and an interpretation of Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil. This oil on canvas painting can be found in the High Museum of Art. Claude Monet, the artist of this piece painted this in 1873, right as the Impressionism Movement was beginning. Monet played the important role of one of the founders of the Impressionism Movement with his works like Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil.

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil is from a series of paintings that Monet did while in Argenteuil. In the artwork Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, the lighting used throughout the painting, brushstroke techniques, perspective, and color all play an important role in the piece, as well as in the Impressionism Movement. Impressionist artists attempted to capture candid shots of their subjects outdoors showing the effects of sunlight on different objects at different times of day. Claude Monet was no exception to this statement.

Like in Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) (Garnier, 824), sunlight is an important part in scene created in Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, though is not the real subject of the piece like it is in Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun). In Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, Claude Monet used darker hues of the colors to capture the light and the absence of light throughout the painting. The sun itself cannot be seen, but the intensity of the colors orange, yellow, white, green, and red throughout the tree suggest that there is some sunlight present.

The sky is spotted with clouds almost to the point where you can’t see the sky, but there is some blue still seen through the clouds. Monet was obviously wanting to capture the essence of the Autumn season, and did so with the right use of lighting that would not have been possible without the brushstrokes Monet used. The brushstrokes that are used throughout a painting can help classify what movement the painting may have came out of. Impressionist painters created a distinctive short, choppy brushstroke to create better lighting. In painting Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, Monet uses this technique all over the canvas.

At close inspection, the colors red, white, yellow and blue placed side by side looked unintelligible as they are placed throughout the trees on the left side of the painting. At a distance, however, the colors begin to mix into different variations of orange, green, yellow, white, blue, and red, making the palette more interesting. This technique is used on the entire painting. The water’s reflection of the trees uses the same technique. Like in Claude Monet’s first major Impressionism painting, Impression: Sunrise (Garnier, 823), the painting Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil also uses the brushy strokes.

Both use a body of water’s reflection in the piece, making the water itself more interesting, and giving Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil perspective. The technique most artists use to project an illusion of the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface is called perspective. Objects are painted smaller the farther away from the audience is supposed to be, and are painted bigger the closer the audience is supposed to be. A vanishing point is helpful in creating perspective. This technique helps to make up a sense of depth in a piece of art.

In Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, perspective is created by the body of water that is in the foreground of painting. This body of water is going off into the distance in which you cannot see it’s end. In the background, there are buildings that are barely visible, making them appear to be farther away. This technique draws the audience’s eye to the center of the piece, perhaps at the building that is set of into the distance. Color has value, hues, and intensities that differ from piece to piece. Color can also be broken down into color schemes.

Color is always a very important part to any work of art. Impressionism painters usually only used the primary colors blue, red, and yellow in their works, like Monet did in Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil. They did this so they could place the primary colors side by side to create secondary colors like the greens and oranges seen in the trees in Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil. This technique was used because Impressionists believed that color is not a permanent characteristic and changes due to weather, lighting, or reflection, which is true in this painting as the leave are all changing colors.

The color of the water in Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil effects the colors of the reflections of the trees, boats, and buildings very little. Impressionism paintings have an overall luminosity because the painters avoided blacks and earth colors. Shadows in the painting are composed of many complimentary colors, like on the sides of the boats on the left side of the water in Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil. Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil by Claude Monet was interesting and very tranquil to analysis and an interpret.

This oil on canvas painting can be found in the High Museum of Art, but was originally painted in 1873 in France, right as the Impressionism Movement was beginning. Monet played the important role of one of the founders of the Impressionism Movement with his works like Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil. In the artwork Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil, the lighting used throughout the painting, brushstroke techniques, perspective, and color all play an important role in the piece, as well as in the Impressionism Movement. Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil is an amazing work of art that will not soon be forgotten by its many adoring fans.

What the American Farm Can Teach Business Leaders About ‘Sowing’ Success

Images and activities revolving around the American family farm are a staple of the autumn season: happy families going apple picking; kids getting “lost” in haystack mazes; harvest dinners, with bountiful feasts. Beautiful photos of harvest sunsets.

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But those beautiful images belie the truth: the fact that U.S. farms are under threat. About  have disappeared in the past eight years, and soon childhoods like my own could become a thing of the past.

In fact, the first 24 years of my life were spent surrounded by corn and soybeans (though we didn’t actually own a farm). The grass grew tall, vehicles came by only seldomly; and the surrounding farmland stretched for miles in every direction of both my hometown and college town. Their combined populations wouldn’t fill a quarter of Fenway Park.

As an adult, and an entrepreneur, I now live far from any cornfield. Yet while I’m no longer around growing crops, many of the lessons from the farm culture that nurtured me come back to me — almost shockingly — in terms of how I run my company today.

Sowing the seeds of leadership

, a role model of mine, has said that leaders should be more like gardeners than directors. Instead of getting their hands into every task and micromanaging matters, effective leaders simply let the seeds they have planted grow on their own, McChrystal has said.

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When your business is a farm, you adjust with the seasons; and planning ahead is key. Farmers are smart people who learn from past mistakes. They meticulously prepare their fields, keep a close eye on the weather and strategically select their seeds. Once everything is in the ground, they understand the value of tending without smothering.

Today, their way of life is endangered, unfortunately, but as entrepreneurs, we can learn a lot from the farming lifestyle:

1. Watch the forecast. The Farmer’s Almanac was a big deal come winter back when I lived in rural Ohio. Every household had a copy, and farmers scoured its pages for insights about smart planting tips for the next season.

We entrepreneurs, too, need to watch the market for indicators of what the future will bring. It’s easy to get focused on what’s happening today: training new hires, forging a partnership or even just closing the next sale. But such short sightedness is a recipe for disaster. It might be 77 degrees and sunny outside, but if a blizzard’s coming tomorrow, what’s the use?

2. Work the seasons. Winter is for planning. Spring is for planting. Summer is for working. And fall is for harvesting. Farmers know how to use each season, and the , too.

, for one, understands how seasonality works. He co-founded PayPal — and  — before pivoting to invest in Tesla and SpaceX. After years of planning, planting and working, he reaped another small harvest with Tesla’s Model S.

He’s now planning ahead for his next season with  and  of his master plan. The best entrepreneurs and leaders understand the cyclical nature of business and don’t stress out when work picks up during the harvest season or slows in the winter.

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3. Plant the right seeds. Farmers don’t plant without a plan. They first cultivate knowledge of their area’s particular soil, climate and infrastructure. Before committing to a crop, they know they must understand their goals, abilities and the market demand.

For farmers, the wrong choice means at least three seasons of struggle. When entrepreneurs sow the wrong employees in company roles, for example, troubles can last even longer. The  will see us through to the harvest.

4. Pull the weeds. Weeds don’t just take up space that could be occupied by crops; they strangle nearby plants and, left unchecked, can ruin a crop.

Just as farmers stroll through their fields to pull weeds, leaders must do the same. So while it’s never fun to fire someone, it’s best to remove a bad employee from the field early. A  reported in Science magazine found that the second wave of recruits drives the growth of a startup. If we entrepreneurs are to succeed, we need to make sure there aren’t any weeds lurking in that group.

5. Let the plants grow. Plants can’t be micromanaged. Stand over them, and they’ll never get any sunlight; water them constantly, and they’ll drown. The same is true with employees.

By trying to manage every tiny decision, we  of the satisfaction that comes with success. I struggle with the urge to try to “grow” my employees myself, but it’s important to trust the seeds you’ve picked. Practice servant leadership and give staffers the training, support and resources they need to thrive. Then step back and let them grow.

6. Learn from past harvests. Locusts can devastate crops, and — as every farmer knows — forecasts can be wrong. But when disaster hits, good farmers don’t just quit and sow salt into the fields. They work to be prepared, should the problem strike again.

The best entrepreneurs . When Gary Swart’s Intellibank failed, he refused to give up. “From the mistakes we made, I learned what not to do,” Swart said in a reflective . After evaluating his mistakes, Swart became CEO of oDesk, now Upwork, the world’s largest online workplace.

By setting aside time every season to review performance the way Swart did, we learn where we’ve gone wrong, what we’ve done right and how to raise a bumper crop next season.

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So, that’s the lesson of the American farm: Plant the seeds, nurture them and — I know it’s tough — give them space to thrive. Don’t start ripping things up and replanting halfway through the summer. Make the most of every season, and prepare for a bountiful harvest.