Autumn Treasures

While browsing through my recent photos, I discovered that I have taken quite a few of this past autumn season. I'm glad I did because most all of these trees are now bare and awaiting their first dusting of snow - which I hope will hold off for at least a little while. The images below will take us back to just a couple of weeks ago. I hope you enjoy them.

There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every season hath its pleasures;

Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
- Thomas Moore

"Come said the wind to

the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
- A Children's Song of the 1880's

"Ere, in the northern gale,

The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on."
- William Cullen Bryant

"Falling leaves

hide the path
so quietly"
- John Bailey

"A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air."
- Eric Sloane

"Swinging on delicate hinges

the Autumn Leaf
Almost off the stem"
- Jack Kerouac

"It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north,

warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue,
the shores a bank of solid gold."
- Sigurd Olson

"Leaf falling on leaf,
on mounds of leaves, rain splashing
in pools of rain ..."
- Gyodai

I'll have some more photos in a few days.