Scarecrow & Mums in my front lamp post bed
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Today is the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, also known as the Autumnal Equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator as it proceeds southward.
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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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“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Humbert Wolfe
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Leaves are just beginning to show color
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“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.”
Thomas Wolfe
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“Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o’er the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold.”
Children’s Song of the 1880’s
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Dogwoods and fallen poplar leaf
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“The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying down the street before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic blast. Indian Summer. The last warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest Moon. The Hunter’s Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the wind. The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of burning leaves.”
Keith C. Heidorn
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Happy Fall to everyone!
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Happy Fall indeed, it’s acutally comfortable out this morning, love the scarecrow and the mums.
Hi Darla, it’s still hot and dry here and doesn’t feel like fall yet, but the trees are starting to change a little and I know it won’t be long. Thanks for stopping by. :)
Sherry: Cool post, I can see the leaves starting their change today.
Hi Fishing Guy, thanks, yes they are just starting to show a little bit of color here too, some of it due to the drought, but still a little color.. :)
A happy fall to you too and thanks for the colorful introduction !
Thanks Hildegarde and you’re welcome. Hope you have a happy fall. :)
I’m all in the fall spirit now. The photos are beautiful, and I want to dig out a scarecrow to put in my rocks (yard).
Louise, we might as well embrace it.. lol :)
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