Encomium with Schemas: Fall

Don't stick schemas together in an artless manner just to get through the assignment (because that won't earn full points). Try to create eloquent language (like Kennedy) that will orchestrate an emotion in your audience with the rhythms of your prose. You're composing a speech as a public figure (or her speech writer), and you're going to write one or two paragraphs of soaring rhetoric as part of an encomium, a speech of praise for a living person or thing (instead of a eulogy, which is praise for the dead).
You must use at least two schemas in your speech fragment. You can praise a great social leader, sports figure, anybody doing great things . . . or a great natural park, an endangered species, a beautiful work of art.
The one condition: It has to be something public (not some private friend or object), some person or thing that many people share (e.g., Yellowstone Park).

As winter approaches with each passing day, we ought to take a moment to appreciate the autumnal beauty around us. It is a time of wearing sweaters in the chilled air, a time of wind-swept leaves, a time of orange and red and yellow.  It grants us timely traditions such as hay rides and dress-up frights. It cools us down after the sweltering summer and warms us into the chills of winter. So, let us give thanks to fall, the intermediate season which generates beautiful landscapes of soft warm colors. Let us enjoy it while it is here and look forward to it every year.