Awwwwtumn Monday

Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Are you up for yet another photo of autumn? I hope so because I've taken gigabytes of fall color photos this year! My mums came out of the Halloween door decoration (an idea that looked better in my imagination than …

Seasonal musings

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives—all bear secret relations to our destinies.  ~François-René de Chateaubriand …

Sympathy for decay

"I love autumn," Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay." ~Nicholas Sparks, Two By Two While the trees here in middle Missouri are ramping up for their show, other areas are finishing with the warm up act. Most eyes are on the main event, but …

September Photo Challenge: Colorful

As we eagerly await autumn's full-blown colorfest, PJ's prompt for September was Colorful. Still not ready to completely let go of summer, September teases us with just a taste of autumn...not yet fully ready to commit to pumpkin spice and wooly sweaters. This month was a mixed bag of photos. But, all colorful. Colorful 1 The goldenrod …

Not quite Wordless Wednesday

I haven't done one of these color palettes for.....well, seems like forever ago. I forgot how much I enjoy them. This one is of some thistle Cabo and I found on one of our morning walks. The thistle flower is up in the top right corner. The silky seedpod is in the center, ready to …