Wednesday, September 26, 2007

autumn's arrival

Cosmos flowers and cricket sounds are the typical symbols of autumn in Korea. Long, hot and sticky summer has completely gone and cool autumn comes. Autumn is the harvest season and offers us the abundant gifts of nature, so an old Korean proverb says that the sky is high and the horses get fat during autumn.
Gyeongan 경산 is located on the east side of Daegu and famous for its sweet grapes and peaches. The above photo shows Gyeongsan grapes in the fall of 2007. As the summer is getting longer, lots of dragonflies can be seen in the sky, and one of the dragonflies in the cloudy sky sits on a reed stem.