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October 15, 2008 |
Days of Autumn
Autumn is here - a time for transition. In the northern hemisphere this means cooler, shorter days, the appearance of colorful foliage, harvest time, and feasts and festivals. Collected here are 34 photos of the season, from around the world. (34 photos total)

Kenyan farmers pick through their maize crop in a field in the village of Kapsimatwa near the Rift Valley town of Bomet in western Kenya on September 9, 2008. The fertile fields of Kenya's western Bomet region are set for better returns with a novel World Food Programme plan launched Wednesday to buy surplus maize directly from local farmers. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) #

A Myanmar farmer carries rice seedlings for planting in Pathein, 200km west of Yangon on October 10, 2008. Myanmar's government has said it needs 243 million USD to buy rice seed and fertilisers, and repair farms ruined by the May 3 cyclone, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. (KHIN MAUNG WIN/AFP/Getty Images) #

A worker uses a harvester to collect the cotton at a farm in Manasi, far west China's Xinjiang region on October 11, 2008. China has long been the world’s largest cotton producer and consumer, but in recent years its soaring economy and global textile trade liberalization have driven its cotton imports far beyond any other market.(STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

A worker stacks cotton at a cotton purchase station in Manas county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region October 11, 2008. Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the largest cotton producing region in China, plans to expand wheat and corn planting areas while cutting down cotton sown areas, Xinhua News Agency said. (REUTERS/China Daily) #

In this photo provided by the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association, Darren Storkel drives a raking machine near Tomah, Wis., Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, during the fall cranberry harvest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that Wisconsin will yield 3.85 million barrels of cranberries, nearly a 4 percent increase over last year's crop. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association, Andy Manis) #

A boy finishes lighting a patch of jack-o-lanterns at the Camp Sunshine Maine Pumpkin Festival, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, in Cumberland, Maine. Volunteers tried to beat the Guinness Record for most lit jack-o-lanterns. They managed to light just over 23,000 pumpkins. The record is 30,128. Camp Sunshine is a Maine based national retreat for children with life threatening illnesses and their families. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) #

A man lays his hand on an oversized pumpkin at the 35th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off October 13, 2008 in Half Moon Bay, California. Thad Starr of Pleasant Hill, Oregon took the top honor at tihis years pumpkin weigh-off with his pumpkin coming in at 1528 pounds, earning his $6 per pound in prize money for a total of $9168. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) #

Farm workers use a forklift to unload boxes of pumpkins coming in from the fields at the Will-O-Bett Farm East Berwick, Pa., Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 14. 2008, before they are stacked and loaded onto trucks for shipping up and down the east coast from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. Each box contains 40 pumpkins and the farm has been picking this year's crop for the past six weeks. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Jimmy May) #

Jonathan Kimberly, 13, loads a pumpkin in the sling which will launch it into the next field, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 in Newton, N.J.. One New Jersey farm has a special attraction to go with the season's hay rides and corn mazes: giant pumpkin catapult. A group of middle school students who became obsessed with the medieval weapon asked northern New Jersey farmers Anthony and Heidi Lentini if they could use physics to fling the big orange squash.(AP Photo/The New Jersey Herald, Anna Murphey) #

A boat with cows and farmers tracks over the Koenigsee Lake during the ceremonial cattle drive on October 4, 2008 in Schoenau am Koenigsee, Germany. At Schoenau the farmers bring their cattle down from the Alpine meadows and drive them with a boat over the Koenigsee Lake every year in autumn, to stay over the winter in sturdy stables. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images) #

Bob McArthur, of Marion, uses a combine to harvest soybeans on Neal Horning's farm in Marion, Iowa, on Satuday, Oct. 4, 2008. Horning has been growing soybeans on his farm for 14 years. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey said 2008 has been a trying year for Iowa farmers - record rain fall, record flooding, fitful weather throughout, but most Iowa farmers still have a good chance of finishing with a good year. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Amanda LaRae Larkin) #

On Monday, October 6th, a live wheat field, approximately one quarter of an acre in size, sprouted at New York City's South Street Seaport. The Wheat Foods Council's "Urban Wheat Field Experience," running October 6th through 8th, bought the farm-to-fork journey of America's most-consumed grain to life. (HILARY STEFFENS / PR NEWSWIRE) #

Visitors crowd a beer tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival on September 20, 2008 at the "Theresienwiese" in Munich, southern Germany. Organisers of the world's largest folk festival running until 05 October expect up to six million visitors to enjoy Bavarian beer in huge tents and fun rides on the fairgrounds. (AFP PHOTO DDP / JOERG KOCH / LENNART PREISS) #

A waitress carries seven liters of beer at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival on September 20, 2008 at the "Theresienwiese" in Munich, southern Germany. Organisers of the world's largest folk festival, which ended October 5th, expected up to six million visitors to enjoy Bavarian beer in huge tents and fun rides on the fairgrounds. (AFP PHOTO DDP / LENNART PREISS) #
More links and information
Fall in New England - Boston.com
Autumn - Wikipedia entry
Oktoberfest - official site