" Now winter lights its cheerful fire, While jests with frolic mirth resound, And draws the wandering beauty nigher, 'Tis now too cold to...

" Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of the moonrise." ​ {Gladys Tabor} ​ ​...

" Happiness is in it... and in this quiet of ordinary things. A table, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And a petal...

" When the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves fills my soul with delight... ​ I particularly...

" Autumn is a time to gently slow down; to rest, reflect, and prepare for winter; to embrace a sense of mellow fruitfulness, by easing...

" Than these November skies is no sky lovelier. ...Not rose, nor amber, nor the scarce late green, is truly seen - In all the myriad...

" On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November, a fresh watery afternoon, when turf & paths were strewn rustling with moist,...

"November is the pearl-gray month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December, the month when the leaves fall in...

" The rustling of leaves under the feet in the woods and under hedges. The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood rides, narrow lanes...

" It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always...

" I have never been let down by autumn, to me it is always beautiful, always rich, it always gives in heaping measure, and sometimes it...

" In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild...

" There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it...

" I love the wild days of autumn, the west winds that rock the apple tree and bring down the leaves and fruit and nuts in showers, and...

" There is a smell in the air, the smell of autumn, a yeasty, damp, fruity smell, carrying a hint of smoke and a hint, too, of decay. It...

" Today can go in a number of directions, a thousand beginnings lie in front of us: we drink our coffee and reach out to a friend and we...

" For patience joins time to eternity" ​ {Wendell Berry} ​ ​ Mid-autumnal mood... leaves in full majestic glory, I walk enchanted....

" The days passed on, the weeks passed on, and the track of the golden autumn wound its bright way visibly through the green summer of...

~ Poetic Pause ~ softening into the slow structure of inky black words stretched across the page an offering, this quiet cadence of verse...

October ​ " Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run...