~~frank swift chase, autumn lights - woodstock, new york~~here's the very wordy definition of what this means in wikipedia.
what it means to me?
slower pace...cooler breezes...change of colors, change of clocks...our 75 year-old oak trees begin their shedding of many, many leaves...college football becomes the saturday requirement...the hauling in of wood so we can light our woodstove and begin the brewing of cinnamon sticks and cloves...the return of sweater weather...baking begins at the homestead...quilts reemerge from the closets and hot chocolate becomes the drink of choice...apple picking in upstate new york...that long-forgotten knitting project gets hauled out to be restarted where i left off in march...my favorite time of year by far.
what does autumn mean to you? do you have a change of seasons where you live?
To Autumn ~ John Keats (1795-1821)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells...
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells...
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