Aspects of Autumn (2)

Another wonderfully warm October day here, with temperatures touching the seventies and a gentle breeze, tomorrow there will be rain but that will be no bad thing for the garden.

I love the colours of this time of year.  I remember collecting Acorns when I was a child, and playing in piles of golden, red and brown leaves, the wonderful crackle they made when they were dry and crumbled under the tread of your feet.  I remember the smell of bonfires when my father burnt the garden waste, cobwebs hung with dew, the nature table at school. Misty mornings and evenings, the smell of Autumn which is like no other.

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots 
may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on 
the feelings, as now in October. 
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

  In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb  colour effects as from August to November.

-   Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905  

Finally, I have Autumn in my home the whole year through. I have a mirrored picture. It never looks the same, the changing light of the day makes it different everytime you look at it.

Nature photographs courtesy of my beloved.