September to November: Beijing in its best coat, the Wall ridgelines turning, Yunnan below a deep blue sky. The season we would choose first.
The Wall in its best coat, golden ginkgo in the Forbidden City's courts, a duck feast after the day-trippers leave.
Everyone sees the Wall. Almost no one has it to themselves.
Follow one leaf across a thousand years.
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