It is fall in upstate New York and there's a real sense of beginning.

In other parts of the country, fall might feel like the slow decline into winter. But here in the Adirodak Mountains of New York State,

it's almost like a second birth, but this one you know it's coming. You are lighting the wick on that firework and

waiting for it to blow and that explosion is the wondrous colors of the leaves.

Before so many people would pack up their cars full of picnic supplies and snacks and their whole family and come up and peep at those leaves.

But now, people are motoring upstate to see the city of the future, capital and twin jewel of New York State,

Lake Town City.

Being so close to the forest at its south, the city is routinely covered in a blanket of vivid red, orange, and yellow leaves.

No one can resist crunching a leaf underfoot.

The business people smashing a big maple leaf with their wing tips in the industrial district.

The blue collar workers crunching their way into the factory jobs in their steel-toed boots

are the families who are snap-snap snapping on them as they run their separate directions from suburban

west and outwards into the city. You can see the students jump into piles in

College Town at SUNY Lake Town City or the prestigious Morrow University,

and the commuters blinking at the brilliant colors above

as they stumble out of the high-speed train station that connects us

to New York City.

The tough guys skulking around little Italy take a second

from mean mugging to watch the Wonder of Nature and the hipsters on their

fixed speed bicycles in Thornhill also take a second for mean mugging to watch the wonder of nature.

Some Arrant Maple leaves flutter onto the water of the historic Lake Town District

which used to be a signal of the end of busy summer season only a few decades ago, but now there's

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