As I drive around this city of trees, I am still amazed at the autumn beauty.

Just as the glowing embers of our first fall fire warms my body, the oranges, reds and yellows of the foliage stokes my soul.

How lucky we are when nature shows us she is an artist beyond comparison.

I wonder if you feel as fortunate as I to have this gift of a special season? Do you take it for granted?

In only a few weeks or perhaps days, the trees will be mostly bare. My eyes will be bereft.

The holiday lights will fill in the gap until the truly dark days of January and February descend.

So soak up this color. Focus on a special tree or shrub. Lock it in your mind.

We will all need to draw on warm memories on cold days when spring seems far away.

Albert Camus said: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Linda Hill built 11 tiny structures in her East Memphis garden in hopes of attracting a few fairies.

Like many others, Hill is intrigued by the small, supernatural winged creatures that bring good fortune and mischief to the gardens of believers.

Folklore has it that fairies like many of the same things human gardeners do, colorful flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds, oak trees, water and wildflowers.

Tom Pellet, the garden designer who works with Linda, told her about gardeners in New England who gather up materials from the forest floor for creating the diminutive dwellings. Hill liked the idea and got to work.

Linda said: When I am pruning or cleaning up the garden, I look at something and wonder if it could go in a fairy house? There is so much at your fingertips.

Suckering twigs pruned out of a viburnum became the building material for a ladder leading up to a fairy tree house made from an overturned basket.

She also make use of bits of moss, tree bark, rocks, seed pods, branches and other easily gathered items.

Linda said: I wanted to something red that would look like fire so I thought of a radish.

Brussels sprouts are used to line a stone walkway. In one house, light is reflected off some glass beads.