The end of fall…

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Autumn, Fall, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Photography, Rose hips

_{© James Currie}

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn – – the season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness – – that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. – Jane Austen, Persuasion

Picking rose hips in the last warm glow of the season.

Autumn flowers…

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Aging, Autumn, Flowers, Photography, Umberto Eco

© Joan Currie

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field
at the appearance of autumn.- Umberto Eco

I passed these lovely flowers on my walk today – even more beautiful now than when they were in full bloom.

Autumn Cherub…

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Autumn, beautiful, Emily Dickinson, Garden, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.
by Emily Dickinson – Autumn 

My garden cherub beholds fall’s dramatic show of color.

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Hanging Gourds…

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Autumn, beautiful, Gourds, Photography, postaweek 2011, Rita Mae Brown

© Joan Currie

I follow the scent of a woman
Melon heavy
Ripe with joy
Inspiring me
To rip great holes in the night
So the sun blasts through
by Rita Mae Brown – Dancing the Shout to the True Gospel

The gourds, rather than the pumpkins, inspire me this autumn.

Autumn…

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Autumn, beautiful, Fall, Harvest Moon, James Whitcomb Riley, Photography, Pumpkins

© Joan Currie

When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock.
James Whitcomb Riley

Autumn arrived last night as I took an evening stroll under the light of the full harvest moon. The moon was extraordinarily bright and I was sure to make a wish as the autumnal equinox will not coincide with a harvest moon again until 2029 in the northern hemisphere.