Hope My Hope will Live on

Autumn 2016 has stepped in bidding  goodbye to the summer that had made us to experience both extreme wet and hot weathers. Of course the autumn has already set in going by the physical change the unexpected change in weather brought in. Following about more than a week's continuous torrential downpour, the sun had been hooking us with its hottest rays. The bushes in summer by nature are impenetrable by us fearing the wilderness of the bushes themselves and multiple dangers lurking in them. But this summer had seen bushes clearing long before the approach of the autumn. The people in the community were seen visiting the forest without any fear of meeting wild creatures. I don't know whether the summer experiencing sudden shift in weather would go on well with the health of the global weather or not. Without even a dust of knowledge on climate science, commenting on weather and climate change is beyond my range of knowledge. However as a responsible global citizen and moreover with some drops of love for nature in my DNA, I was bit concerned about how plants and animals would have received the sudden weather change, long days of wet weather followed by long days of hot weather.
      Whatsoever had been the matter, the summer bid bye with a moderate rainfall towards yesterday evening and the autumn takes charge with a moderate rainfall too.
     I welcomed the autumn with some incense of mist streaming out of the forest carrying away my mind this morning when I was putting on my shoes on the verandah. Having to run household chores in the absence of my wife, I hardly get time to relish morning freshness and beauty. However my eyes meeting mist streaming out and climbing up the small mountain made me forget the piles of my day's work. That was my hope that the autumn will pass on productively.
     Hope my hope wasn't crushed under the peach tree at my residence which fell down in the evening right in front of the boys who were retiring to their makeshift hostel in the evening.  Fortunately the tree fell down before they crossed it. (They have to pass under the tree) Good number of our chilli plants were crushed and no other casualties. The tree used to bent generously with delicious fruits in summer following its pink bloom in spring. Now we are short of a peach tree and so will be for the squirrels who used to rely on the tree for peaches. Few days before the peaches are fully ripe, the squirrels used to visit the tree frequently passing through the roof of my residence even at midnight. Their homes must be in the woods behind the residence. Often they come jumping from tree to tree for the fruits available near our residence. Nowadays they are for gauvas. During peach season they are for peaches. Now with the tree fallen down helplessly, the squirrels have to look for other trees next year for their meal as we will have to for fruits. Apart from being a source of fruits for us and meals for squirrels and bulbuls, the peach tree had been home, resting and feasting place for many birds, insects and rodents. It also had been the holder for passion fruit climbers. Now we have think of growing passion fruits somewhere. At the same time we have to look for a pole to string the rod for drying cloths because till today the tree had been holding an end of the rod.
     Although the tree was gone unexpectedly, it would never be found useless till it disappears completely due to unavoidable force of nature. I have already thought of its use. I am thinking to put some of its parts in the cub den to grow orchids and others as bean stakes. Moreover how many seeds it might have produced and then the seeds germinated into new plants? The tree is never gone. It will live on till it gets extinct with unexpected change in weather like the one we experienced last summer. So a tree is more than what most of us see it as just a simple and single sort of thing. 
      The tree will live on and so will be my autumn's hope of productivity and efficiency to deliver best service to the stakeholders of my current work place.