‘the winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.’
-john muir
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image credit: Holding the Moon by Eric Houck
Oct1
Tag Archives: autumn
Sep23
a summing up.
my favorite season begins.
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“for the fall of the year is more than 3 months
bounded by and equinox and a solstice.
it is a summing up without the finality of the year’s end.”
-hal borland
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image credit: Yuma Hidaka – photographizemag
Nov4
time does not pass.
daylight saving time ends tonight
fall back.
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“time does not pass, it continues”
-marty rubin
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image credit: vpub.gif
Oct31
all hallows’ eve.
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credits: j. reads, dexter kozen
Oct21
luster.
‘there is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.’
-percy bysshe shelly
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i’m not sure about today’s
hail, rain, snow, sun, wind, lightning, and thunder.
i suppose some could classify these as ‘luster’,
but probably not ‘harmony.’
Oct1
autumnal tints.
“october is the month for painted leaves….
as fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall,
so the year near its setting.
october is its sunset sky; november the later twilight.’
~henry david thoreau, “Autumnal Tints”
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image credit: “Autumnal Equinox” by Maggie Vandewalle – TREES
Sep27
change.
kinders find magic in the japanese garden
seeing things change right before them.
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‘change is a measure of time, and in the autumn, time seems speeded up.
what was, is not and never will be;
what is, is change.’
-edwin way teale
Sep22
autumn awakens.
‘and the sun took a step back,
the leaves lulled themselves to sleep,
and autumn was awakened.’
– raquel franco
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image credit: autumn magic by maja lindberg
Nov12
falling away.
our first snowflakes fall
and from the looks on their faces
i’d say the fall pumpkins
are having a hard time
accepting the arrival of the winter weather
and wish it would all just go away.
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“ignoring facts does not make them go away. “
-fran tarkenton
Oct31
all hallows’ eve.
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o’-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.
-"theme in yellow" -carl sandburg 1878-1967
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image credit: google images (vintage)
