"The snapping of pitch from a burning log;
the faint scent of pine filling the room.
Flame leaping about as if it were a ballet
performing for its audience.
The soft, comforting glow of candlelight,
bringing with it serenity and quiet thoughts."
~ Linda Christensen, "Autumn's Beauty"
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"November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring."
~ Clyde Watson
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,
had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon
and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”
~ Robert Fulghum
"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow.
It's what sunflowers do."
~ Helen Keller
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When the Frost is on the Punkin'
"They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere
When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here—
Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossoms on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock—
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock."
~ James Whitcomb Riley (spelling is his own! lol)
"Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise."
~ George Herbert
"I wonder where the fairies go
when autumn winds take all the leaves
that wraps them through the winter's snow,
and all the owls hide in the eaves."
~ Unknown
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~ Elizabeth Lawrence
