Autumn, that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, that close bosom friend of the maturing sun is, rightly, the favourite season of millions of people around the world. And, in the northern hemisphere, it is now in full swing.
A period of quite warm and dry weather during which all fruit is filled "with ripeness to the core" and the leaves in the trees turn such a vivid range of yellows and reds, is, however, so short it would be a sin not to enjoy the amazing display nature has prepared for us.
Check out Sputnik's gallery and enjoy some meditative moments while drinking in some magnificent autumn landscapes.
A woman hold an umbrella and poses for a photo on a sunny autumn day in Tsaritsyno Park in Moscow on 2 October 2020.
A stag barks in front of autumn foliage during the annual rutting or breeding season, Richmond Park, London, Britain, 11 October 2020.
Autumn colours are seen above the tree line in the Scandinavian Mountains in Sweden's Jamtland Harjedalen region, below Helags (Maajaelkie in the indigenous Sami language), Sweden's highest peak south of the Arctic circle, 22 September 2020.
Autumn in Lichfield City, England
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Gorkan Telci, of Southborough, Massachusetts pauses to consider where to aim his camera as the fall foliage on the eastern slope of Lower Wolfjaw Mountain in the Adirondacks leaves him spoilt for choice, Sunday, 27 September 2020.
Foliage from Boreas Pass in Colorado, US, at Golden Hour.
An autumn leaf lies on the pier at lake Woerthsee near the small village of Inning, southern Germany, during rainy autumn weather on 7 October 2020.
Passersby walk along an alley as it snows in Novosibirsk.
The Virginia creeper outside the Tu Hwnt I'r Bont tea room starts to turn red as autumn arrives in Llanrwst, Britain, 21 September 2020.
A woman walks with a child in a Moscow park on 11 October 2020.
Photos taken around in Haute-Savoie in the French Alps in autumn mainly near Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, Refuge des Fonts, Trè le Saix and Maison la Cerisaie.
Autumn in the US state of Minnesota.
A walk in an autumn forest in Norway.
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© AP Photo / Jim Mone
The leaves on the trees and the scrub change colour along the banks of the River Gorge on the St Paul, Minnesota side of the Mississippi River, Thursday, 8 October 2020.
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© AP Photo / Julio Cortez
A motor travels along the Utah State Route 92, the section known as the Alpine Loop Scenic Highway, Friday, 2 October 2020, in Provo, Utah.
