Trees

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October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came.
The Chestnuts, Oaks and Maples,
And leaves of every name.

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The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.

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The Chestnuts came in yellow,
The Oaks in crimson dressed;
The lovely Misses maple
In scarlet looked their best.

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All balanced to their partners,
And gaily fluttered by;
The sight was like a rainbow
New fallen from the sky.

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The leaves are changing early this year.

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Views from my yard yesterday and today, poem is “October’s Party” by George Cooper.

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Happy first day of Fall

Autumn’s the mellow time.
-William Allingham

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A scarecrow in my flower bed.

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When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
-Sarah Helen Whitman

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A squirrel hanging upside down in a dogwood tree, enjoying the ripening berries.

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.
-Stanley Horowitz

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Mums, fall decorations, asters blooming

      
Potted mums in bloom. My perennial mums are just starting to bloom.

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Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant

Happy Fall to everyone!

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First day of summer

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Happy first day of summer!

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Happy Summer

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon;
to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
-Henry James

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
-Sam Keen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that it’s fresh young beauty will ever fade.
-Gertrude Jekyll

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Happy Summer!

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