Music is “Autumn Leaves” by Eva Cassidy Welcoming Autumn !!! Pictures are courtesy of MorgueFile And other free photo sites emlu October/05 ~~To advance the slides, click mouse or use the space bar or arrow keys ~~Arrow keys will also allow you to move back and forth between slides if you wish

Beauty, of whatever kind, Invariably excites the human soul to tears. …Edgar Allen Poe

The year’s last loveliest smile …William Cullen Bryant

Sometimes we hang on very tightly to the very last shred of what was. …me

Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolour, Summer an oil painting And autumn a mosaic of them all. …Stanley Horowitz

Autumn is a second spring Where every leaf is a flower …Albert Camus

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. …Nova Bair

Wild is the music of Autumnal winds in the faded woods. …William Wordsmith

Youth is like spring, an over praised season More remarkable for biting winds Than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, And what we lose in flowers, We more than gain in fruits. …Samual Butler

And day by day, the dead leaves fall and melt. …William Allingham

Falling leaves hide the path So silently …John Bailey

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree. …Emily Bronte

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. …George Santayana

Change is a measure of time and, In the autumn, time seems speeded up, What was is not and never again will be; What is is change. …Edwin Way Teale

Nature gives to every time and season Some beauties of its own. …Charles Dickens

The year’s in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning. …Thomas Hood

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And like a dream of beauty glides away. …Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence. …Thomas Hood

I hope you’ve enjoyed !!! ML