" Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. "

Charles Lamb

We left the cabin last week, fall was just entering the stage

but plans for travel meant, that this year at least, we could

not stay for the change. Now that we have a wood stove,

we may give it a try next year. When I think of the seasons

I always, eventually think of Edwin Way Teale.

"We would see a thousand moods and facets of the season, 

We would see new birds, new lands, all in the surroundings

of fall."

from Autumn Across America

It is only when we are aware of the earth and 

of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Henry Beston

"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

"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

Garden pond at the farm.

"2 A.M. moonlight. The train has stopped

out in a field. Far off sparks of light from a town,

flickering coldly on the horizon.

As when a man goes so deep into his dream"

from Track

by Tomas Transformer

"Summer girls they sure are fun 

Get so golden in the sun"

from Summer Girls

as sung by Blue Rodeo

Faded flowers and the last of the summer girls

at a family BBQ Tuesday night.

"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade."

from The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by William Butler Yeats