Drunk on Beauty

Quote of the day: “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”  ~Albert Camus

Glowing Leaves

Celebrating the gorgeous autumnal beauty that surrounds me today!  What a wonderful day to be out enjoying the fall colors!  Mild temperatures, sunny morning, blue skies…

Fall Colors

“The sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’

Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights up the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

More Fall Colors

“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage,freedom and light!”
― Hafiz

Red Berries

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~P.D. James

Brilliant Maple Leaf

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~Bonaro W. Overstreet on October

Glowing Tree

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don’t believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place?
~ Annie Dillard

Watercolor Trees

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
~ Emily Bronte

Red Leaves, Blue Sky

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~George Eliot

Maple Leaf

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

Twin Red Leaves

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~Emily Dickinson

Sumac and Prairie

How beautifully leaves grow old.  How full of light and color are their last days.  ~John Burroughs

Perfect Day for Fishing on the Lake

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dappled Fall Path