Beautiful images Lashia.  The first one radiates warm colors from the light on their faces and the highlights in her hair to the beautiful autumn colors in the trees.  I like how the second shot shows the people enjoying the fireworks too. 

Tara, I loved your descriptions of enjoying the dry crunchy leaves.  Here it never gets cold enough for most of the trees to bother with shedding their leaves.  Most of those that do seem rather embarrassed about it, turn them a nondescript brown, and try to  nonchalantly drop them to the ground when no one is looking.