October comes, a mourning song in the air, a soft weeping in the willow tree... a mission of night-carving spirits from the breeze." ​...

" It was October again - a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valley were filled with delicate mists as if...

​ " Fall has fallen. The leaves are yellow against the dark blue-grey sky and the winds have picked up. The winds that are still warm and...

" This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden... of wood fires in...

" Come said the wind to the leaves one day, come o'er the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet & gold, for summer is...

" I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." ​ {Nietzche} ​ ​ Welcome autumn! a season for listening, to racing...

“ I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that...

" Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting..." ​ {Joyce Meyer} ​ ​ As this home building slowly moves...

" Thoughts begin to come to me in their quiet way... " ​ {Brenda Ueland} ​ ​ The lines I read, the photographs I capture, the thoughts I...

" I love this season of gradual withdrawal by nature, but a subtle inner withdrawal too; a slow, imperceptible retreat into ourselves. ​...

" Literature, before anything else, is saying, Be mindful. Stop whatever you are doing & notice. Allow yourself to be seized by this." ​...

" We are in for a spell of perfect weather now, everyday luminous, every night brimmed with stars. Picnics at noon, supper by the...

" Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." ​ {Peggy Horton} ​ ​ An awakened soul. A new energy thrums in...

" Oh, I know how it is looking out in the garden this golden weather, how the placid hours are slipping by in unchanged peace, how strong...

" That strangely still pause between summer & autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and the rising wind that is once again readying...

" This joy gives her experience of a genii-life. Buoyant, by green steps, by glad hills, all verdue and light, she reaches a station...

“ There is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window...

" Above all, you must illuminate your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and say what your beauty means to you." ​...

" All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. ​ Nor do...

" and the evening lives o'er all serene and still... wrapt, let me view the magical world below." ​ {unknown} ​ with my head bowed to the...