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Pumpkin
spice latte has hit Starbucks weeks ago, the stores have displayed various size
and shape pumpkins and gourds, you smell the spiked apple cider as you walk along
the streets but, nothing compares the display by nature in Autumn. There is
something magical about the season and it will be ended very soon. Elizabeth
Lawrence once said that “ Even if
something is left undone, you should always take time to watch the leaves
changing color.”
Oliver
Wendell Holmes have said described the progression so well. He quotes “The
foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and
there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a
beauty who has seen one season too many.... September is dressing herself in
showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the
extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest
tapestry for her grand reception.”
Georg
Christoph Lichtenberg had said it so rightly that “Autumn repays the earth the
leaves which summer lent it.”
Indeed as I
went out for a walk in the morning, the air was crisp and I could smell the
autumn leaves. Streets were lined up with colorful, bright fallen leaves of Ashes, Maples and Oaks. I remembered a
poem by George Cooper I had read
long time ago.
October gave
a party;
The leaves by hundreds came,—
The Ashes, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The sunshine spread a carpet,
And every thing was grand;
Miss Weather led the dancing;
Professor Wind, the band....
The sight was like a rainbow
New-fallen from the sky....
The leaves by hundreds came,—
The Ashes, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The sunshine spread a carpet,
And every thing was grand;
Miss Weather led the dancing;
Professor Wind, the band....
The sight was like a rainbow
New-fallen from the sky....
Wondering
through the streets I felt as if I was in a photographer’s paradise. I could
hear the footsteps of winter and sound of falling and rustling leaves in the
crisp November morning air.
Welcome to
my perpetually-in-progress collection of photographs about autumn. The bright
summer has long gone and gorgeous autumn is flinging its rainbow-tints of
beauty on each and every tree, leaf and grass.
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