Golden

For a comparison, here is how our autumn looks so far: golden, with a honey-like light, with a bitterish smell of dead leaves and smoke. Strange, how each season has its own smell. Very typical and very strong: you get out of the house and all you can say is :"It smells like winter (or autumn, or spring). " The winter has a cold, metallic smell, like snow and frost; the spring a sweeter one, full of hope, like a warm breeze and the autumn a melancholic one.

Here is a nice song called :Emotie de toamna" ("Autumn Emotion"). The lyrics belong to one of our greatest modern poets, Nichita Stanescu. It mainly says that this is the season when we most need tenderness, the shelter the others can offer, to fight our fears.