Living, loving and leaving
So much has been happening lately that I have a massive backlog of recently-snapped images to share (not to mention the small mountain of American photos yet to be shared).
But I am away from home and having an enforced rest at the moment (or at least for the next couple of hours) so I chose this little series of photos taken late last week. Because if I leave it any longer (pun intended) the changing of the season will be done and dusted and Winter will have thrown her frosty blanket over the landscape…
And the leaves that are now changing from green to russett will have fallen to the ground. I adore Autumn (Fall for you North Americans) – ours has arrived quite late this year with the leaves only just beginning to change colour and crisp as June arrives.
I can never understand why Autumn traditionally represents something sad, something finishing.
Like ‘Autumn Song’ by English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Gosh, how depressing!
And The Moody Blues Forever Autumn:
Like the SUN through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away
Autumn Song by American Henry Harris Aubrey Beach wasn’t quite so drear:
Now the goldenrod is swinging
Radiant in the air,
The wild grape still is clinging
High inpurple rare.
Ah!
I searched for some more upbeat autumnal references and found very few.
To me, you see, Autumn is a time for dancing leaves and sweet cool breezes. A season of gentle sunshine and early evenings and time spent quietening my little weaner bulls. Clear clean cyan skies and earthy reds and terracottas bursting over the softening green in random little celebrations.
Does anyone else out there love this season as I do?
Do you know of some upbeat Autumn songs or poems?
Please do share in comments…
12 Comments
debby
You know, BB, the oldest man in America just died in Montana, and he was quite a charactor. As I read about him, I wished that I had known him. But when asked what he attributed his long life to, he replied, to the effect of “I have always welcomed change. Some people are scared of it. I always thought it was exciting, and I looked forward to changes.” He’s on to something, I think. I read about him, and made up my mind to welcome change. To celebrate it, as well. So grab the chardy woman, pull out a glass and plop down. Toast autumn. Celebrate it, and any other changes that come along.
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Bush Babe
See, that right there is why I love you Deb. That’s EXACTLY right. Inspiring.
🙂
BB
Kelly
Autumn, Fall…whatever it’s called…. has always been a favorite of mine. I have a fall birthday! Also, it marked the beginning of school and I was the little geek that loved new school supplies, etc. etc.
Beautiful fall photos! We’ve jumped right into SUMMER!
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Bush Babe
I’m an Autumn baby too!!
Kate
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne
There’s some nice quotes on quotegarden.com ~
I adore Autumn.
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Bush Babe
I KNEW you would come up with something gorgeous… love it!!!
🙂
BB
Buttons
I don’t know any songs but it is my very favourite time of year. Just after the hot summer and before the cold winter. Perfect like your photos.The colours are amazing. B
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Hippomanic Jen
Beautiful shots.
Scotty
Yep, I like Autumn too, BB.
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
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant
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Bush Babe
OH I LOVE that Albert Camus one… perfect!!!
Leenie
You’re right! Autumn is a beautiful, fruitful time of year…my favorite. Don’t forget Keats’ “To Autumn” that one says it all. Hope your “enforced rest” doesn’t mean medical problems. If so…get well soon.
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Bush Babe
Leenie – that poem is so fantastic I thought I’d share the first part here:
TO AUTUMN.
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Link to full poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw279.html