Elegant Economies

"To Autumn" 

                                Ode To Autumn is a poem by English  poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. A little over a year following the publication of "To Autumn", Keats died in Rome.

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-eaves 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...

I love this quote from Stanley Horowitz-

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all."-   Stanley Horowitz




And of course any thing Clive Staples Lewis
has to say-






“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”-   C. S. Lewis


I love something about every season, fall has such breathtaking colors, the abundant [hopefully] harvest.


The promise in each seed that falls to the ground that come Spring new life will abound.




I am entering this card to Fall Blooms Bloggers Challenge


This post is linked to;




http://www.lisasomerville.com/2011/10/fall-blooms-bloggers-challenge.html