Goodnight Autumn/Good Morning Winter 2023

 

 

“Autumn is a cunning muse who steals by degrees my warmth and light. So distracted by her glorious painting of colors, I scarcely realize my losses until the last fiery leaf has fallen to the ground and the final pumpkin shrinks. Autumn departs with a cold kiss, leaving me to suffer the frigid grasp of winter in prolonged nightfall.”

 
~Richelle E. Goodrich,

  Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #42

 

“I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree

 so that a new bud may grow.” 

~ Gemma Malley

  The Legacy

 

 

Dragons And Damsels And Autumn Leaf Of The Day #14

 

Summer leaves sulkily with rains.
Winter sets off gaily leaving spring behind.
Autumn walks a fine line.

(Haiku)
~Monika Ajay Kaul 

 

The cool days are here. Well, cool for the Central Valley. Some years it's well into October before I need a sweater, but hubby is helping me get all the warm stuff washed and put on standby. Yes, I even get excited about washing my favorite autumn and winter sweaters for the season. I am hoping to still be able to catch a few more dragonflies and damselflies before the rains come in. They are an amazing challenge for me to photograph, but just look at them, so delicate and so beautiful I can't help but try.

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #1

 

Galt, California

September 2023

 

"That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."

 

~Wallace Stegner

Angle of Repose

 

 

 

 

The First Autumn Leaf Collection Of 2020

"Autumn.

A season. A girl. A memory.

Autumn,

Her eyes twinkled with mischief.

Her smile was infectious.

Her laugh was a cure.

Autumn.

She broke me." 

~Akiah Watts

~Carly

September 27th 2020

Stockton, California

Goodnight Autumn, Good Morning Winter

"Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."

~Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet

Autumn whispers a loving goodnight, at 2:33 AM, PST,

 and the Winter Solstice says good morning with a cold soft kiss. 

"To make a perfect season,

 love everyone without reason."

 ~ Debasish Mridha

 

"I think that to one in sympathy with nature,

 each season, in turn, seems the loveliest."

~Mark Twain

"Wilted or in bloom, taking or lending daylight,

 the world transitions."

~Richelle E. Goodrich

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, 

And A Little Poetry For Every Day

 And now...

 The Last Leaf Of The Day

For 2016

Leaf Of The Day

December 21st, 2016

Mood: Quiet

~Me :)