" We spend January walking through our lives room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year,...

" ...that fleeting pause when time bends and magic hovers between the main celebrations of the seasons... spontaneity and softness become...

:: the quiet revolutions of winter :: winters arrival the still point of this every-so-quickly turning world a quiet beckoning this...

" Ye dear companions of my silent hours, whose pages oft before my eyes would strew so many sweet & variegated flowers..." {fr; book...

" A camera records what exists in front of the lens, but it also records something of the photographer, who stands behind it. In a sense,...

" enveloping, cozy, warmth, comforting, soft, anchoring, slowing down, pause, a book in my hand, rest, renewal, snuggles, silence." ​ ​...

" 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...