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Recent snowstorms have been unable to silence the color of these plants and trees in our neighbor’s yard that are hanging over our fence. I feel like I’ve been introduced to a fantastic new baseball or football team, in the sense that while I’ve always appreciated autumn as a season, never before have I been rooting for it like I am now.