hiking the pictured rocks national lakeshore trail
upper peninsula, michigan, usa
autumn equinox – northern hemisphere
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‘autumn was ripening and the forest grew crisp.
so deep my soul ventured, I retuned with her scent.’
-angie welland-crosby
up north
on glen lake
the light
at the end of the day.
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‘happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded.’
-e.l. konigsburg
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autumn 2o24, glen lake, empire, michgian, usa
on the first day of fall with friends
lake michigan
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‘not every lake dreams to be an ocean.’
-memet murat ildan
WELCOME NOVEMBER…
There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder where we will find it.
And I think November is a great time to take a little peek behind you,
and see just how much you’ve done.
To take stock of your achievements, your endurance,
your survival.
To rest, reinforce, before the festivities envelope us all.
Before beautiful new beginnings.
And most importantly, November is a time to seek out light.
As the natural order darkens, we must find it ourselves.
We must do whatever we can to brighten our day,
our home, the world.
Seek out light wherever you can my friends,
and pay no heed to those who condemn your sparkle.
You are much-needed.
Keep showing up, in that special way only you can do.
And show up for yourself too
(which can sometimes mean not showing up at all).
This year has been hard.
Again.
But beautiful.
Again.
As is the way of life.
As is the way of life.
-Donna Ashworth
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art credit: arthur rackham, british children’s literature illustrator, fall fairies from peter pan, 1906
september has just flown by
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“october is a symphony of permanence and change.”
-bonaro w. overstreet
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image credit: pinterest
walking in sedona in the early morning on the first day of autumn
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“and all the lives we ever lived, and all the lives to be, are full of trees and changing leaves…”
-virginia woolf, to the schoolhouse
“i can’t believe it’s november already, it feels like halloween was just yesterday.”
-author unknown
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photo credit: pinterest
“Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind? And don’t you think the trees, especially those with mossy hollows, are beginning to look for the birds that will come – six, a dozen – to sleep inside their bodies? And don’t you hear the goldenrod whispering goodbye, the everlasting being crowned with the first tuffets of snow? The pond stiffens and the white field over which the fox runs so quickly brings out its long blue shadows. The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way.”
~Mary Oliver, “Song for Autumn”
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art credit: willowday flower project by gina, stockholm
signs of change are all around us.
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“the crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.
even on the most beautiful days in the whole year –
the days when summer is changing into autumn –
the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
– E.B. White
here we find ourselves in september again, along with lots of babies!
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september is by far the most popular month to be born. it isn’t even a close race. september has 9 out of 10 of the most popular birth dates, with september 9th being the most popular date of all. using my holiday math formula, it’s easy to find a clear correlation between the end of the old year through the ringing in of the new year, and the volume of early fall arrivals.
1 january new year’s eve party = 1 to 1,000,000 september babies
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“my favourite poem is the one that starts ‘thirty days hath september’ because it actually tells you something.” -groucho marx
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art credit: mary evans
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