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| The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus |
| For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~ Edwin Way Teale |
| It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~ P.D. James |
| Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~ Carol Bishop Hipps |
Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin…. We anxiously anticipate it every year.
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~ Emily Dickinson |
| October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~ Nova Bair |
falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly
~ John Bailey |
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
~ George Cooper |
| Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~ Samuel Butler |
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| Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence |