“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” a famed troubadour once proclaimed, and you certainly don’t need a calendar to know that the Susquehanna Valley has turned the corner toward you-know-what. Mornings dawn a little frostier and evenings descend a tad sooner around Penn College these days, but autumn presented quite an extended and impressive show while it lasted. Here, then – finishing out the year that already provided PCToday readers with winter, spring and summer galleries – some remarkable imagery from a talented trio of campus lensfolk.

– Photos by Alexis M. Burrell and Kollin G. Kisner, student photographers;
and Cindy Davis Meixel, writer/photo editor

Vibrant hues mingle on General Services’ floral palette …

… extending a colorful “Welcome to Penn College!” to SASC visitors.

The Bush Campus Center fire pit issues a cozy invitation.

A favorite of birds and deer, and an occasional occupant of wine bottles and jelly jars, the American beautyberry shows off its perennial purpleness outside the Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center.

The nation’s colors, framed by nature

GS has a plan for all seasons …

… filling the College Avenue Labs pickup with a truckload of fall charm.

Shadows lengthen as days draw shorter … but only for another month or so!

Gathered at the CC entrance, leaves await a wintry breeze to send them scampering.

Designed and built by students, and appreciated by all who pass by …

… The Victorian House serves as an attractive campus centerpiece throughout the year.

Is this seat taken? Donor-provided benches offer respite near the southwestern end of Madigan Library, where fall’s fire is matched by the building’s signature red wall beyond.

Streaming through the trees from its midday perch in the southern sky, the sun favors this Vic House vantage with its brilliance.

Clustered red berries adorn a Washington hawthorn outside the ATHS. The tree’s leaves go through a succession of color changes and its flowers are bright white. (Thank you, horticulturist/grounds and motorpool manager Andrea L. Dildine!)

Campus View Apartments are visible through the curtain of a tree outside the CC.

The bountiful brilliance of autumn

Hagan Way divides the lush greenness of the main campus entrance, in silent anticipation of impending snow.

Trees outside the SASC, slow to surrender their lingering leaves, are reflected in a bench.

A healthy canopy stretches skyward, shading the Vic House property.

Welded “Student Bodies” catch the rays along the splendidly scenic campus mall.

How does our garden grow? Quite beautifully, thank you!

“How beautiful the leaves grow old,” wrote Catskills-born conservationist John Burroughs. “How full of light and color are their last days.”

Not yet stilled by winter’s icy fingers, the Madigan Library water feature freely flows.

Playing a late-season game of Solar Peek-a-Boo

An evergreen reminder of nature’s beauty