We want it to stay, but autumn always leaves. Beautifully. Terri Guillemets As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. Vincent Van Gogh 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 There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be

Autumns in the garden Autumns of yesterday Cosy autumns Dark autumns Deep autumns Dreamful autumns Early autumns Muted autumns Other autumns Smouldering autumns Soft autumns True autumns Warm autumns

Thomas Hood No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon! No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day - No sky - no earthly view - No distance looking blue - No road - no street - no "t'other side this way" - No end to any Row - No indications where the Crescents go - No top to any steeple - No recognitions of familiar people - No courtesies for showing 'em - No knowing 'em! No traveling at all - no locomotion - No inkling of the way - no notion - "No go" by land or ocean - No mail - no

John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er-bri

Spring in reverse When summer ends When winter is born Season of stillness Season of pumpkins Full of leave taking The season of change...