Sometimes, the earth still speaks to humans in symbols more powerful than words — the changing colors of the leaves, the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, the powerful push and pull of the tide. The earth yet still turns; winter becomes spring, spring turns to summer, and now! Now. As Blake Lively emerges from a Manhattan hotel clad in head-to-toe velvet, we know. Despite the date on the calendar or the damp humid sweat covering your entire body, we know: Summer has inexorably turned to fall. Put away your cut-off jean shorts and sandals and pour a Pumpkin Spice latte all over your head, for like a fashionable Punxsutawney Phil, Blake has emerged in velvet and this wordless sign of the shifting seasons cannot and shall not be ignored. AUTUMN HATH ARRIVED.
