walking through a mix of fall leaves
i see
golds, and browns, and yellows, and oranges, and reds
and…
—
‘on the other hand, you have different fingers.’
-steven wright
Nov7
Tag Archives: fall
Aug31
one sure way to tell that fall is almost here.
yes, DUDE Wipes offers a seasonal Dumpkin Spice scent for the fall, featuring notes of nutmeg and clove to capture the fall pumpkin spice essence. These extra-large, flushable wipes are available from DUDE Wipes and can be found at all of your favorite stores. They’re here for your rear. (yes, these are real)
a bit of fall poetry to engage your senses:
—
‘i can smell autumn dancing in the breeze,
the sweet smell of pumpkin, the crisp sunburnt leaves.’
-ann drake
Oct6
quiet on the river.
now that the kayaks, the canoes, and the rafts
have left the river for the season
everything feels calm and slow and beautiful
in the meditative quiet
of the occasional fly-fishers.
—
“many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
~ henry david thoreau
Sep22
not every lake.
on the first day of fall with friends
lake michigan
—
‘not every lake dreams to be an ocean.’
-memet murat ildan
Aug27
summerween.
a bit confusing, like these leaves seem to be,
showing the colors of two seasons
—
listening to npr
they talked about starbuck’s
starting the pumpkin spice train
a month earlier this year
pumpkin spice everything = fall/autumn
i don’t remember the calendar saying
that fall begins in august
the seasons/holidays/calendar
shift with the world of marketing
not with the weather (90F) recently
or dates
but by creating their own
‘extended seasons and festivities’
people get excited early
start the buying frenzy
happy summerween
i’m holding out for my favorite real season – fall.
—
‘the seasons change their manners, as the year had found some months asleep and leapt them over.’
-william shakespeare
here is a partial transcript of the npr conversation:
KIM: Summerween is that time of the year when major retailers start to promote all things sweater weather, even though shorts and flip-flops are still in season. George John is a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He says it’s been a trend for a while now.
JOHN: This is the trend of moving up Christmas and Thanksgiving and Halloween, the three big sort of seasons that run into each other, earlier and earlier and earlier.
KIM: But this year, fall- and Halloween-related goods seem to be popping up sooner than ever. Take Home Depot, for instance. The retailer launched an online Halloween campaign in April. In June, Lowe’s, Party City and Michaels all released spooky seasonal items online, earlier than in previous years. Most recently, on Thursday, Starbucks began serving its iconic pumpkin spice latte on August 22, the coffee chain’s earliest rollout yet. Most of the big businesses say that these early rollouts are in response to excitement from consumers.
JOHN: if they just stretch every darn holiday out to being a season, it just loses its meaning, and it loses its intensity. A risk they are willing to take.
—
Source credits: Juliana Kim, NPR News, George John, University of Minnesota
Nov7
welcome november.
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
—
art credit: arthur rackham, british children’s literature illustrator, fall fairies from peter pan, 1906
Sep30
october coming.
september has just flown by
—
“october is a symphony of permanence and change.”
-bonaro w. overstreet
—
image credit: pinterest
Sep23
all the lives…
walking in sedona in the early morning on the first day of autumn
—
“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
Mar20
all fall.
how you deal with it changes everything. it’s all in the comeback.
Nov1
already?
“i can’t believe it’s november already, it feels like halloween was just yesterday.”
-author unknown
—
photo credit: pinterest
I didn't have my glasses on.... 