Fearless Faith

I love the fall palette of colors: burnt oranges, bronzes and yellows, deep gray greens and dazzling reds. I also love the anticipation that accompanies them, anticipation of holiday gatherings, cooler nights and campfires, fall sporting events and the company of friends. Yet for all their wonder, colors alone are never enough to evoke the full sense of fall. That takes a bit more; texture in the form of flower petals and knobby gourds, dry rustling corn stalks, creases and stems of pumpkins and bearded seed heads on perennials.

Fall harvest kicks open the door, allowing us to observe the wond...