window…

                                                    The eyes are the window to the soul. ~ Proverb

weeds

             A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  ~Doug Larson

frost

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

wild berries

    The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.  ~Author Unknown

mums the word

                                          Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we

                                          get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.  ~Dodinsky

fall leaves

                    How beautifully leaves grow old.  How full of light and color are their last days.  ~John Burroughs

Golden light

      For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.  For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.  

                ~Edwin Way Teale

autumn glory

                                   Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus

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mums!

                                Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
                                  ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

sunflowers

                         “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”                           

                                ~ Helen Keller