It is hard to look outside at the brilliant yellow leaves and not think of one of the world’s greatest appreciators of the eternally changing seasons: a Seattle writer named Waverly Fitzgerald.

If you don’t know her work and her website “The School of the Seasons,” I am thrilled to be introducing you.

“Each season has its own flavor, captured in the folklore of seasonal holidays, preserved in rituals and recipes, ceremonies and songs,” Fitzgerald writes. She provides readers with “articles on seasonal crafts and recipes for holiday foods, a correspondence course (with suggestions on spiritual practices and creative pursuits that match the energy of each season) and books on time management and the seasons.”

Her monthly calendar features “moonlore, pagan rituals, saints days, and seasonal world holidays.” She even describes occasions you’ve never heard of like “Clothes Changing Day,” that is, when you put your summer cottons away and pull your woolens out. Raised a Roman Catholic, Fitzgerald magically melds astrology, early Church ritual, and contemporary thinking to create a marvelous commemoration of life’s sparkling energy that I know you will absorb through her.

Fitzgerald also writes a thoughtful monthly newsletter, and for a fee will send you a weekly message that’s always uplifting and in tune with the seasons.