My favorite color is October!

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October

O hushed October morning mild,

Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;

Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, 

Should waste them all. 

The crows above the forest call.

Tomorrow they may form and go. 

O hushed October morning mild, 

Begin the hours of this day slow,

Make the day seem to us less brief.

Hearts not averse to being beguiled,

Beguile us in the way you know; 

Release one leaf at break of day;

At noon, release another leaf. 

One from our trees, one far away;

Retard the sun with gentle mist;

Enchant the land with amethyst. 

Slow, slow! 

For the grapes’ sake, if they were all, 

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,

Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—

For the grapes’ sake, along the wall.

by Robert Frost, from A Boy's Will, 1913 

Welcome to the month of greatness! 

Wishing you all a really golden October. 

Sincerely yours,

isabella 

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All aglow!

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"Just before the death of flowers,

And before they are buried in snow,

There comes a festival season

When nature is all aglow."

-   Author Unknown

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November Garden Moments

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AUTUMNAL

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.

― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

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Reichtum

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Wie unendlich groß ist das Reich der Formen; 

was gibt es da noch auszubeuten und zu tun auf Jahrhunderte lang. 

Robert Schumann 

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- Jaipur Garden

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October is nature's funeral month

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"October is nature's funeral month.  Nature glories in death more than in life.  The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May.  Every green thing loves to die in bright colors."

-   Henry Ward Beecher  

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In Love with October

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“October, baptize me with leaves! 
Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse 
me with split pea soup. 
October, tuck tiny candy bars 

in my pockets and carve my 
smile into a thousand pumpkins. 
O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” 

― Rainbow Rowell

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Welcome to the month of greatness! 

Wishing you all a really golden October. 

Sincerely yours,

isabella 

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More Gold! - Welcome October

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

― Jim Bishop

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My North - Magic Hour

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If a year was tucked inside a clock,

then Autumn would be the magic hour. 

Victoria Erickson



Blooming Tillage radish on a field nearby in last sun of the day.



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Jetzt ist es Herbst

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Jetzt ist es Herbst,

Die Welt ward weit,

Die Berge öffnen ihre Arme

Und reichen dir Unendlichkeit.

Kein Wunsch, kein Wuchs ist mehr im Laub,

Die Bäume sehen in den Staub,

Sie lauschen auf den Schritt der Zeit.

Jetzt ist es Herbst,

das Herz ward weit.

Das Herz, das viel gewandert ist,

Das sich vergnügt mit Lust und List,

Das Herz muß gleich den Bäumen lauschen

Und Blicke mit dem Staube tauschen.

Es hat geküßt, ahnt seine Frist,

Das Laub fällt hin, das Herz vergißt.

Max Dauthendey

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Let misty autumn be our part

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"Pale amber sunlight falls across

The reddening October trees,

That hardly sway before a breeze

As soft as summer: summer's loss

Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!

The twilight of the year is sweet:

Where shadow and the darkness meet

Our love, a twilight of the heart

Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home

In dreamful Autumn, we who deem

No harvest joy is worth a dream?

A little while and night shall come,

A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie

Winter and night: awaiting these

We garner this poor hour of ease,

Until love turn from us and die

Beneath the drear November trees.” 

― Ernest Dowson

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Mittag im September

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All photos are taken during a lovely Autumn break in South Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, and Baden-Baden and around.

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September Poem

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"The breezes taste 

Of apple peel. 

The air is full 

Of smells to feel- 

Ripe fruit, old footballs, 

Burning brush, 

New books, erasers, 

Chalk, and such. 

The bee, his hive, 

Well-honeyed hum, 

And Mother cuts 

Chrysanthemums. 

Like plates washed clean 

With suds, the days 

Are polished with 

A morning haze. "

-  John Updike, September

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Be soft

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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