First snow

The first snow is beautiful, no matter how little falls,
or how long it stays.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake (1757 - 1827)

Wild asters

Asters have a flower meaning of patience, love, daintiness and good luck.

Carpet of leaves

"Twisting, turning through the air
Till all the trees stand stark and bare.
Exhausted, drop to earth below
To wait, like children, for the snow."
       from Leaves, by Elsie N. Brady

Last October sunrise

Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
From October
by Robert Frost.

Crooked tree

Happy 

Halloween!

Rose Hips

Next year's rose

Seagull

While I'm sure Nick Faldo was referring to the weather at a golf course when he made this statement, it could easily be said about today's wind:

"When it blows here, even the seagulls walk."

Frosty morning

I've been a dweller on the plains,
have sighed when summer days were gone;
No more I'll sigh; for winter here
Hath gladsome gardens of his own."

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771 - 1855)

A late autumn afternoon

"Come said the wind to the leaves one day,

Come o're the meadows and we will play.

Put on your dresses of scarlet and gold,

For the summer is gone and days grow cold."

A children's song from the 1800's

Fall daisies

Hardy little flowers
Like to children poor,
Playing in their sturdy health
By their mother's door:
Purple with the north wind,
Yet alert and bold;
Fearing not and caring not,
Though they be a-cold.

From Butterflies and Daisies

by Mary Howitt (1799 - 1888)