Photo by Christopher Potter.
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
– Stanley Horowitz
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all
the daylight hours in the open air.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
– Hal Borland
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
– John Donne
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.
Soon as the leaves heard the wind’s loud call,
Down they came fluttering, one and all;
Over the brown fields they danced and flew,
Singing the glad little songs they knew.
–George Cooper
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
— From “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” by Thomas O. Chisholm
Photo by Vocaris.
Photos courtesy of stock.xchng.
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Wat beautiful pictures and quotes. I enjoyed visiting your site today.
Those pictures are amazing!! I really love the first one there.
Barbara, thanks for visiting and leaving a comment over at Mountain Musings. I popped over to check out your blog and enjoyed reading tons of stuff! I’ll have to make sure I come back! …love the autumn quotes and pictures.
Wow!!
Loved the quotes, and the pictures. Autumn is my favorite season, especially in October.
Thanks for visiting my blog! I love having visitors.
I love these autumn quotes and pictures…the last photo of the orange leaves on the tree is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing these!!
Thank you for visiting my site Barbara – I never would have discovered your lovely blog!!!
I love these pictures so much! As you may or may not know, fall is my FAVORITE season of all!!!
I am excited to get out and see some beautiful sites today!!!
Peace, Stacey
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