Falling for autumn

Yellow autumn leaves cover the trees in Fili park in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 7.

Steam rises from the Royal River as it flows past the Sparhawk Mill on a chilly autumn morning on Oct. 6, in Yarmouth, Maine.

Pumpkins and gourds of various colors and sizes are displayed on a wall at Wilson Farm in Lexington, Massachusetts on Oct. 6.

A motorcyclist cruises past a maple tree displaying its bright fall foliage, on Oct. 6, in Freeport, Maine.

Bavarian farmers transport their cows on a boat over the picturesque Lake Koenigssee Oct. 6. Before the winter season approaches, the farmers have to drive their cattle down from their Alpine meadows to a narrow valley that can only be reached by boat.

Oktoberfest waitresses celebrate the end of the world's biggest beer festival, the 181st Oktoberfest, in Munich on Oct. 5.

Visitors enjoy a ride on a funfair ride during Oktoberfest in Munich, on Sept. 24.

People take a stroll on a sunny autumn day down a tree-lined path in Bordeaux, France, on Oct. 5.

A sunflower blooms in front of a building that is covered with Virginia creeper in autumn colors near Wriezen, Germany, on Oct. 4.

A tree with autumn leaves stands in front of a pine forest near Stoetten, Germany, on Oct. 3.

Sugar maples change colors at the Somerset County Historical Society in Somerset, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 2.

A trumpeter swan prepares to land on open water in Potter Marsh in Anchorage, Alaska on Sept. 30.

People sit on park benches in front of the Federal Chancellery in Germany on Oct. 1 and enjoy the warm rays of the autumn sun.

Hmong farmers walk on a terraced rice paddy field while returning home during the harvest season in Mu Cang Chai, northwest of Hanoi on Sept. 27.

A girl rolls a pumpkin at Tokyo's Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome garden on Sept. 27.

The sun shines through an autumn-colored leaf at the Palmengarten botanical gardens, in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 24.

A woolly caterpillar walks over a pumpkin on the first day of autumn on Sept. 23, in Paint Township, Pennsylvania.

A fishermen's camp is seen on a bank of the Yenisei River in the Taiga district outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, on Sept. 22.

A cyclist rides through the morning light in Richmond Park on Sept. 23 in London, England.

Farmer Harald Wenske drives his boat, loaded with pumpkins, on a Fliess, which is a water vein of the river Spree near the village of Lehde, Germany, on Sept. 23.

A deer is seen in the morning mist in Richmond Park on Sept. 23 in London, England.

Morgan Beck catches a ride with her grandfather, Bill Beck, as they pull a trailer full of pumpkins at the Mary Esther United Methodist Church in Mary Esther, Florida, on Sept. 21.

A squirrel gathers a chestnut that fell from a tree in a park in Shadwell, East London on Sept. 22.

Europe's heaviest pumpkin lying on scales near Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 21. Jos Ghaye (not pictured) from Belgium broke the European record at the pumpkin weighing championship with a pumpkin weighing roughly 1,900 pounds.

Leaves develop autumn colors on the Tu Hwnt ir Bont Tearooms in Llanrwst, Wales on Sept. 20.

Hobby gardener Silvia Manteuffel measures the circumference of her giant pumpkin in Fuerstenwalde, Germany, on Sept. 18. This was her first attempt at growing pumpkins.

A colorful leaf is seen on Sept. 11 in Herten, Germany.

Field-Winner variety pumpkins are displayed in boxes in Stemmen, northwestern Germany, on Sept. 10.

An Elvis sculpture made of pumpkins is displayed during the 15th pumpkin exhibition at the 'Bluehendes Barock Ludwigsburg' permanent gardening show in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on Sept. 5.