Scenes of fall

Fall brings scenes of colorful foliage, festive pumpkins, crisp apples, and the enjoyment of all it has to offer. Click through for photos of more scenes of fall from around the world.

Two Adirondack chairs sat on a vacant dock along the misty shore of the Androscoggin River in Turner, Maine.

Foliage in Pomfret, Vt..

The foliage of aspen trees was illuminated by the early morning sun behind a group of pines on Casper Mountain in Casper, Wyo., on Sept. 23.

Glenn Cook, co-owner of Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, picked a bushel of apples in one of his fields on Sept. 15. Apple picking season is in full swing.

Woody Lancaster posed with his giant pumpkin, which weighs over 1,600 pounds. He’ll enter it into the Topsfield fair contest where he’ll compete with the select group of giant pumpkin growers for first place and bragging rights. He spends over two hours a day taking care of his giant pumpkins.

A child ran in the autumn sunshine in Battersea Park in London on the first day of fall.

Cheryl Rouse of Shawano, Wis., looked over some decorative pumpkins and gourds on Sept. 22 at Thelen’s Pumpkin Patch in Gresham, Wis.

A pair of unicyclists rode along a trail under fall leaves in Anchorage, Alaska, on Sept. 24.

Oktoberfest revelers toasted one-liter “Masskrug” beer mugs on Sept. 22, the opening day of the world’s biggest beer festival , which runs through Oct. 7 in Munich.

The leaves in Alton, N.H., changed color above the Merrymeeting River as Bob Paterson worked to clear Millfoil from the river on Sept. 24.

Farmer Harald Wenske punted his boat loaded with pumpkins over a small canal near Lehde, Germany, on Sept. 25. Wenske’s pumpkin field is reachable only by boat.

Crates of apples were loaded onto a wagon during harvest at Hugus Fruit Farm in Rushville, Ohio, on Sept. 11.

The leaves in LaPorte, Ind., displayed their changing color as a light rain fell and summer came to an end on Sept. 21.

Alexander Snipes, 3, of Jessup, Pa., sat down for a break from walking through piles of pumpkins at Ritter’s Farm Market’s in Mount Cobb, Pa,. on Sept. 20.

A Syrian brown bear licked honey off a piece of fruit at the Ramat Gan Safari park outside Tel Aviv on Sept. 13 in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Tradition calls for eating apples dipped in honey, symbolizing the hope that the next year will be sweet.

A tourist boat sailed through the Yenisei River surrounded by foliage in an area of Siberian taiga outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on Sept. 16.

Madison Schrubey, 4, and her cousin, Kaden Severinsen, 6, picked out a pumpkin on Sept. 22 at Thelen’s Pumpkin Patch in Gresham, Wis.

Photographers waited for the shadows to recede from the base of the Maroon Bells peaks near Aspen, Colo., on Sept. 14. The autumn colors will soon hit their peak in the mountains around Aspen.

An array of autumn’s seasonal fruits were displayed at the annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, England, on Sept. 14. Gardeners from across Britain gather every fall to show off their crops of vegetables, flowers, and plants.

A visitor walked next to a pumpkin sculpture entitled “Hansel and Gretel’’ during the preparations for the Erfurt Garden Construction Exhibition in Erfurt, Germany. The autumn exhibition “Fantastical fairy-tale world’’ at the horticultural exhibition allows gardeners to create different fairy tales with more than 20,000 pumpkins. The exhibition runs Sept. 9 through Oct. 31.

A woman sold star-sharped lanterns at the mid-autumn festival toy market in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 25.

The leaves in Craftsbury, Vt., were already changing on Sept. 12. After images of Tropical Storm Irene scared away leaf peepers last fall, tourists are heading back to see the Northeast’s fall foliage a year later and aren’t worried about how the dry summer might affect the color.