dual personalities

Tag: fall/autumn

Another turned page

by chuckofish

dual pumpkins

Fall is in the air. I wore black tights for the first time yesterday. Away we go!

“[T]hat 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 essence of fall

by chuckofish

Pumpkins, chrysanthemums, leaves, ivy, and wet pavement.

Ay, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath,
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

–from “October”, a sonnet by William Cullen Bryant