Autumn is in the air

On September 22, the day of the equinox came in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn officially and finally came into its own. Autumn is the harvest season, the time for agricultural fairs, festivals, migrations and preparations for winter. People are already beginning to feel the frost in the evening and morning air, the foliage is reaching the peak of its multicolor, apples and pumpkins are harvested, and the animals have perked up and are preparing for the approaching winter.

(Total 30 photos)

1. Four-year-old William Orton leans on a giant pumpkin on the first day of the Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, northern England, September 13, 2013.

2. Crawford Notch in White Mountains, New Hampshire, October 5, 2013.

3. Autumn leaf in Potsdam, Germany, September 19, 2013.

4. Red partridge at dawn near Gotland, in Pickering, England, September 26, 2013.

5. Picking apples in Suckley, Worcestershire, England, October 8, 2013. Due to the unusual combination of late spring and hot summer, the harvest is very late this year, according to English growers.

6. Bavarian farmers transport their cows across Lake Königssee on October 5, 2013. Before the start of the winter season, farmers must move their livestock from the alpine meadows to a narrow valley that can only be reached by water.

7. A couple is engaged in ropejumping in the Siberian taiga near Krasnoyarsk, September 29, 2013.

8. Clash of deer on a foggy morning in Richmond Park, southwest London, September 27, 2013.

9. A black cat sits on pumpkins at a farm near Potsdam, Germany on September 10, 2013.

10. A boy wearing a werewolf mask attends the annual Shocktober Fest near Crawley, West Sussex on October 5, 2013.

11. Vampire girls at Shocktober Fest near Crawley, West Sussex on October 5, 2013. The event managed to set a record for the largest gathering of vampires in the UK, but failed to break the world record.

12. Storks fly over the border between Turkey and Syria, September 1, 2013.

13. Wheat in a field near the village of Lakino, 95 km north of Krasnoyarsk, September 24, 2013.

14. Sunlight illuminates the trees through the clouds during a snowstorm in Vail, Colorado, October 4, 2013.

Peter Glazebrook of Newark holds his giant bow on the first day of the Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, England on September 13, 2013.

16. Waitresses with sparklers celebrate the end of the world's largest beer festival Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany on October 6, 2013.

17. A tourist climbs the First Pillar rock in the Stolby Reserve near Krasnoyarsk on October 2, 2013.

18. Elizabeth Smith holds grapes during the harvest in Malton, England, September 28, 2013.

19. A grape picker walks through a field in Manarola, Italy on September 23, 2013.

20. Autumn leaves in Berlin, Vermont, September 20, 2013.

21. Fog shrouds the Tower Bridge in the early morning in London, England, September 24, 2013.

22. Catherine with her daughter Sophie walk past a figure consisting of 30,000 pumpkins and squash, in the form of the Matterhorn mountain peak in Kleisto, Germany, October 1, 2013.

23. 16-year-old Mariah Evans from Riverside eats a fried turkey leg at the fair in Pomona, California, September 4, 2013.

24. Fog shrouds the valley during dawn in Pickering, England, September 26, 2013.

25. A worker stacks gourds at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in west London on October 2, 2013.

26. Thunderclouds pass by a soybean field near Salem, South Dakota, on October 2, 2013.

27. Beginning of the Aqua Alta season, or the season of the tides, in Venice, Italy, October 7, 2013.

28. Hoarfrost covers the leaves in the village of Zabar, 137 km northeast of Budapest, Hungary, October 4, 2013.

29. An elk makes its way through a cornfield in Levan, Utah, on October 5, 2013.

30. Harvesting wheat in a field near the village of Lakino, Russia, September 24, 2013.