Living in a country where it gets to -30 or so during winter I have found a new appreciation for the change of the seasons. Fall came this year after a wet and warm summer (for us in Ulaanbaatar anyway, not so in the countryside). I spent a day one weekend wandering among the leaves out in Terelj National Park. As I write the leaves have all fallen, and the first snow has arrived, so it is nice to remember the brief flare of colour.