Ellipsis Movie Of The Week... Halloween (1978)

 

"You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone deserves one good scare, huh?"

~Sheriff Leigh Bracket (Charles Cyphers)

Halloween

Disclaimer: I LOVE Halloween, and I LOVE the Halloween movies, well, most of them anyway! Let's start all the way back at the original, 1978's, Halloween. The wonderfully low budget slasher film, about an escaped mental patient with a mission to continue inflict his murderous rage on the fine folk of Haddonfield, Illinois. It's a slasher film, true enough, but it's a lot more than that, it's a film about survival! Laurie Strode is my favorite of the "final girls" because she was right around my age when the movie came out. She was a babysitter, and so was I. But she had resilience, something I desperately needed to learn. Laurie, as late as 2022, in, Halloween Ends, has taught me to get back up and keep going. Everything she says about Michael Myers, and evil in general, is 100% true. And I have used all her lessons over the years to face my very own Michael Myers. So yes, in that Halloween is just four days away, it seems like the perfect film for the movie of the week choice! Be sure to catch the newest installments in the Halloween series, Halloween,  Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends.

I'm such a nerd about these things!

And now, a little music!

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #21

 

"Autumn questions: Does an autumn leaf have a dream? Does she want to return to her green tree again? Does she want to drift into 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 #18

 

"If a year was tucked inside a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour."

~Victoria Erickson

I took this photo right at the end of summer, just before autumn officially began. The leaves fell from the trees as a whisper and wink to summers end. Something truly magical happens, when the autumn light intrudes on the last breath of summer, and summer only smiles.

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #17

"The wind wafts to us the odor of forest leaves that hang wilted on the dripping branches, or drop into the stream... the leaves whirl in eddies through the air."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #16

 

"I love the trees until their leaves fall off, then 

encourage them to begin again next year."

~Chad Sugg

Ellipsis Movie Of The Week... An American Werewolf In London

 

"Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring."

~Jack ( Griffin Dunne )

An American Werewolf In London

I hadn't seen this movie in probably 30 years, and then there it was, right there on Prime! So, being that this is the season of monsters, real or imagined, I decided to watch it. To my surprise, it was better than I remembered it being! Corny in parts, but also compelling. As werewolf movies go, this is a pretty good one to sink your teeth into. Yes, I know, corny! But that's just the monster in me, this time of year!

Go... shoo... go watch it while it's still available! Now, enjoy this refreshing commercial from way back in the 1970, featuring, David Naughton, singing the Dr. Pepper song. Can you believe it's the same guy from the movie!? Sorry the quality isn't great, but it's cool all the same. And a nice memory of one of the greatest commercials from back in the day!

Enjoy!

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #15

 

"Falling leaves are like dancing dreams."

~Anonymous

Autumn leaf Of The Day #14

 

"I think seasons complete me

 for once autumn comes

I can freely fall with every leaf

I do not have to bloom

yet I must die

in every delicate line of October"

~Laura Chouette

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 

"There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves."
~Avijeet Das

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #12

 

"How beautifully autumn leaves grow old. 

How full of light and color are their last days."

~John Burroughs

American Naturalist

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #11

 

"Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower."

~Albert Camus

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #10

 

"I think seasons complete me, for when autumn comes I can fall freely, 

along with every autumn leaf. 

I do not have to bloom and yet I must die, in every delicate line of autumn."

~Laura Chouette

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #9

 

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."

~Unknown

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #8

 

"Autumn is a beautiful but sad poem that dying leaves recite with great enthusiasm so that the world will remember them as they bid farewell to the world."

~Mehmet Murat ildan

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #7

 

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."

~Oscar Wilde

Summer is still doing it's fair share of collapsing. We are still experiencing hot days, but we are having gentle evenings, where the temperature drops into sweater weather. But I am not complaining, I am actually grateful that we still have some dry weather to enjoy. This year's, El Nino, is promising to be quite the gusher. Lots and lots of rainy weather is due to hit northern California in late October, or early November. The state is already planning for it, Governor Newsom has declared a State of Emergency to get out ahead of what might be coming. So, I am trying to hope for the best, because if the worst happens, getting adorable shots like this one, which Hubby helped me with, or any autumn leaf shots for that matter, could be very difficult. I am just going to deal with it when it gets here.

Autumn Leaf Of the Day #6

 

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man, and requires the least of him."

~Hal Borland

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #5

 

"A leaf is a letter sent from the trees."

~Unknown

I like that! With a little luck, Trump won't mess with that mail!

38 days until election day! 

If a leaf was my ballot it would be whispering... I can't wait to fall!

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #4

 

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

~Emily Bronte

Autumn leaf Of The Day #1

"No spring nor summer have such grace, as I have seen in one autumnal face."

~John Donne

The Autumnal

John Donne: The Complete Poetry And Prose

This is the very first, Autumn Leaf Of The Day, I hope there will be a lot more to come, but this has been a brutal summer, filled with very hot weather, and we are facing drought conditions, yet again. Finding leaves might be difficult to find, but you know I will try. We are also facing El Nino conditions later in the seasons, but rain has never worried me much, and fog doesn't either! So, we will see what we see, and if worse comes to worse, maybe instead of individual leaves, I will post autumnal landscapes. It will all work itself out. 

Summer Homes

 

"The greatest artist and web-designer ever, is indeed a spider!!"

~Munia Kahn

With summer on it's way out the seasonal door, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of my favorite parts of this time of year, the amazing summer webs! I will continue to look for webs throughout autumn, but there is just something about the webs spun in summer that speaks to me. I just wish I could have seen the spider, or spiders, who built this intricate arachnid condominium.