Oh I just love it...Autumn....the time of pumpkins and squash...spices and the beautiful colored leaves....that crisp fall air...

O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy! ~Terri Guillemets

Autumn binds poetry in its own withered leaves. ~Terri Guillemets

..I see
the turning of a leaf
dancing in an autumn sun,
and brilliant shades of crimson
glowing when a day is done...
~Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves —
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill

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....
~George Cooper (1840–1927)

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Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer,

Autumn fun...Halloween......

                                                                          

Oh Spring and soon summer....how time flies. The buds and blooms and fresh cut grass. What wonderful smells and beauty they bring. Take time to inhale...enjoy the sun, the nice weather, even the rain that we need, the sound of it....I love that sound. Enjoy the cool summer treats and fruits and veggies. Be grateful for the little things that make you smile.♥

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James



The luxury of all summer's sweet sensation is to be found when one lies at length in the warm, fragrant grass, soaked with sunshine, aware of regions of blossoming clover and of a high heaven filled with the hum of innumerous bees. ~Harriet E. Prescott, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1865


[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. ~Charles Lanman, "The Dying Year," 1840

And don't forget to keep your fur babies cool this summer. ♥

 Winter...almost here, with it's crisp cold air and biting cold. Warm drinks and a season of family and festivities and for contemplating the new year ahead...

 

 It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. ~John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine"

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth

                                                                           

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

 

 I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and
nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
~Terri Guillemets



 Ever grateful for those tiny moments that bring us joy...that make us smile..the things life is made of.....

Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ~Terri Guillemets

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~Author Unknown

 

Well, Autumn has come..at last..it was such a wet and humid summer, it just went on and on.
 Now that air is turning 'brisk' and the breeze has that smell and crispness I look so forward to...
That cup of hot cider....the pumpkins...all it brings with it. 

 I am enjoying sitting here...feeling that 'cool breeze softly wafting through the window. The sound of cars passing by on a Saturday night as always, so many people are coming and going. 
                                                                                 


Halloween, Thanksgiving....Family is so important...the ups and downs, the worries...but that joy and warmth..that love, is always always there. There is nothing quite like it. Nothing....♥

                                                                                   

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill, "Virginia Dare: Or, the Colony of Roanoke," 1840

  No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face....
~John Donne, "Elegy IX: The Autumnal"

I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.
The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.
~Ann Drake, 2013

[T]here is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky...
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ah...a rainy cool day...I can't believe it..so hot and humid lately I thought it would never end. We sure don't need anymore rain, but the cool that has come with it...so wonderful.
Well, it's only for a day...but I'll take it...and enjoy every moment of it. 
The littlest things in our lives are most times the best things......
Sunday...I love the quiet of Sundays...living in the city..all week long the sounds of trucks and traffic, helicopters and planes...workmen running their machines........and then Sunday comes. 
No work allowed, no busy hustle and bustle to and from the city. What a joyful day. 
I love the peaceful silence. 

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain! ~Terri Guillemets, "Homeward bound in the crashing of the rain," 1991  

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson

Hmm what I wouldn't give for a walk in the woods....

Enjoy the day. Truly we never know what tomorrow brings...♥

ooh I just love fountains like these........just gorgeous..and what a feeling they bring.

Ah..........hot and sunny....hazy and humid...a 'dog day' of summer......

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown


Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. ~Terri Guillemets

Time to daydream...knowing fall is just 'around the corner'....take in the moment and enjoy...with a cold glass of iced tea...

The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn. ~Terri Guillemets

Sooo much rain....every bit of sun that peeks through is to be treasured....

Enjoy the day.....each moment that makes you smile...♥

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure. ~Alvaro Velasco

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra


We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky,