I've already started drinking pumpkin spice flavored coffee, an abomination in the eyes of many coffee purists. While corn and peaches are still plentiful at the local produce stands, apples, pumpkins and gourds are also beginning to make an appearance. It's a time of gathering in and preparation. I can almost smell the fragrance of bulbs waiting to be planted. Who can resist those little promises of a spring that waits to be?
Ready or not, autumn is arriving soon in a garden near you unless you live in the southern hemisphere where spring is imminent. (Lucky you!) So here's to the festival of autumn and all that goes with it!
Ah, A ghost? I'm not seeing photos??? Did I miss a joke?
ReplyDeleteThank you for re-posting the photos. The leaves, the sentiments are beautiful statements.
Delete"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- Dylan Thomas
I tried something different with how I saved the scans and somehow made it so that only I could see them. Isn't technology in the wrong hands a scary thing? Love the Thomas poem but as the Divine Miss Midler said, "Why bother?" The light will die as it does every year; might as well enjoy the ride.
DeleteThe photos aren't showing up for me either. There are some leaves turning already on my oak tree. And there are lots of crispy leaves all around just waiting to fall to the ground. For the first time in several years I'm looking forward to the fall and winter holidays.
ReplyDeleteWow! Good for you, my friend!
DeleteYay! I came back for a second look and now I can see the photos. They're very pretty! I love scanning colorful leaves, I've got a few framed upstairs where I play on the computer.
DeleteI can see them (the leaves) and even I have to admit they're beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe charms of autumn make the passing of summer bearable. As we've discussed before, it's winter that we could live without.
DeleteUnfortunately Peter, I'm not seeing the photos either but totally happy with the changing in the wether. Summer is my least favorite season. One of my Japanese maples have its leaves turning black; not quite autumn colors. I hope not to lose the tree.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the picture glitch. Got it fixed thanks to all who let me know about it. Fingers crossed for your Japanese maple!
DeleteI love this post. The sentiments expressed in your opening paragraph are exactly my own. These last two days of dampness and dark skies have me in a funk. I am NOT ready.
ReplyDeleteWe placed our bulb order yesterday from bulb growers in the Skagit Valley. We replace our tulips every year. Today we hope to get out in the yard to start the clean up now that everything is starting to sag.
Big leaf maples are turning brown. I hope there will be enough left to go golden when autumn actually arrives.
I thought the PNW had three seasons at once all the time? I'm not ready to give up on summer yet, although I did have my first taste of pumpkin pie (pumpkin walnut actually) today.
ReplyDeleteThose are some gorgeous maple leaves! I don't accept fall this early either, even though I yearn for its cooler temperatures and the promise that rain may, just maybe, be coming closer. My failure to accept it has to do with the fear of disappointment - just as soon as we get used to the cooler temps, whammo, summer's heat returns with a vengeance.
ReplyDeleteHaha - rules were made to be broken... The colors of fall always make me happy! It's like a big sigh of relief, after the brutality of summer subsides. :)
ReplyDeleteWe have had our first leaf sweeoing session, so many leaves were down on the lawn. Your maple leaves are so colourful and pretty, no wonder you brought them home.
ReplyDeleteI can't resist gathering leaves either. You found a marvy way to put them to use.
ReplyDeleteOh, I would love to have beautiful leaves like these.
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