Autumn Leaf Of The Day #85

 "The mellow melancholy makes the music of autumn."

~Jayita Bhattacharjee

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #60

 

"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warm and exhilarating

 then any wine they tell of."

~Henry David Thoreau

Autumn's Pavements

"You make an autumn mist taste like champagne

and turn winter rain into the elixir of life itself."

~Sanober Kahn

I just love walking, or rather wheeling around,

 in my wheelchair, in autumn.

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #55

 

"The music of the far away summer

 flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest."

~Rabindranath Tagore

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #51

 

"Leaves are falling, autumn is calling"

~Unknown

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #43

 “Every season has its own art

 and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!”

 
~Mehmet Murat ildan 

 

Just a leaf today, I am a little tired and fibromyalgia can really drain your energy. Two posts tomorrow. My usual rant about something, and the next leaf in the autumn leaf project. I have a great one the post on Tuesday!

 

 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #37

 

 “October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing winds greeted him as he stepped from the bus onto the dusty highway. Coolness embraced. The scent of burning wood hung crisp in the air from somewhere far in the distance. His backpack dropped in a flutter of dust. He surveyed dying cornfields from the gas station bus stop. Seeing this place, for the first time in over twenty years, brought back a flood of memories, long buried and forgotten.”

 
~Jaime Allison Parker,

  The Delta Highway

 

 

 

Autumn Leaf On A Mossy Tree

 

“Autumn burned
Deep red and amber,
An inferno of intense
Terrifying beauty,
Devouring feverishly
Everything in
Her path.” 

~L.S. 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #23

 

“Every story begins somewhere, some in the rain of forgotten yesterdays

 and some in the scent of autumn leaves...” 

~Jayita Bhattacharjee 

 

  

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #14

“Autumn questions: Does a dead leaf have a dream? Does she want to return to her green tree again? Does she want to drift in the wind and travel the world? Or does she want to meet other dead leaves? Maybe she just wants to get into the frame of a photo and become immortal?” 

 
~Mehmet Murat ildan 

 

  

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 

“I love the autumn—that melancholy season that suits memories so well. When the trees have lost their leaves, when the sky at sunset still preserves the russet hue that fills with gold the withered grass, it is sweet to watch the final fading of the fires that until recently burnt within you.” 

 
~Gustave Flaubert,

  Memoirs of a Madman and November

 

 

 

Autumn Emotions

 

“I needed a long and lingering autumn, a tenure with which to ease into another state of being.”

 
~Ruchika Tomar,

 A Prayer for Travelers

 

I love watching leaves float to the ground.They are in their last moments of life, and they deserve my respect and empathy. But more important they need my deep appreciation for their work all year, and the beauty revealed. Isn't autumn, and oak leaves, just magical?

 

  

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #7

 

“I am falling in love with autumn all over again”

 
~Charmaine J Forde 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #5

 

“There is great beauty in each season, but autumn has a pinch of something more.”

 
~Laura Jaworski 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #79

 

“Autumn...the grace in letting dead things fall.” 

~Darnell Lamont Walkermont Walker

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #72

 

There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; 

so much separation and so much sorrow!

~Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #63

 

“Why did the leaf go to school? To turn over a new leaf!”

 ~Unknown

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #19

 

“All things are symbols: the external shows,

 of Nature have their image in the mind, 

as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves”

 

 ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

Autumn Stick Figures or 32 Days Of Night

 

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”

 
~Stephen King

  The Shining

 

While in the Cosumnes River Preserve the other day, I found a stick on a bridge that reminded me of everything spooky. The stick figures hanging in the trees in the, Blair Witch Project, were the same types of figures in American Horror Story seasons Coven, and Roanoke. Was this a stick monster? Or maybe an omen of some evil to come? Nah, it was just a really cool stick, but it's fun to consider it, because when horror is done right, it can inspire the creative mind to imagine, what if? Like the movie Halloween points out, sometimes the Boogeyman wins, and when he does, it can take your whole life to defeat him.

 

We are in that situation right now with the upcoming election. Donald Trump is a boogeyman, and he is coming at us relentlessly. Will he win again? Even if he loses will it all be over? What horrific deals has he already done with world leaders?What is coming at us in the next 32 days that will shake us to our core. I love being scared, but this is not the kind of scared I want to be. We have already began our scary movie-a-thon for October, I will get it caught up here soon. I can't wait to share what horror movies we will be watching. Hopefully, watching them will help me deal with the high jinks of the biggest monster of them all! One recommendation I will make right now is, The Devil's Advocate. It will give you chills, for obvious reasons.

 

 

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Energy

 

“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” 

~Sarah Kay 

 

That is the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. I kinda have to laugh, because I about drove myself crazy trying to find one, along Desmond road, just a couple years ago! Now I know about 4 or five places where they can be found pretty easily, including along the canal next to my condo! It's such a cutie. If you have read some of my previous postings about this bird there isn't much more to say, except I admire it's energy. It's a silly little ball that never stops moving! I don't think I have ever heard it's voice, maybe I will one day, until then I will just admire them, and keep trying to get a good photo. They are a challenge!