Autumn

[Stephi_B]

foggy but colourful
http://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/natuerlich/foto/images/3-herbstnebel.jpg

wet and cold
http://www.juelich.de/contentory/datapool/page/214/lebensort_regentag.jpg

fallen leaves
(with some guitars and a... it's a turkey they got in that car?...
and a hac in a pool or something and a weird party and all that, mmh why not? ;))
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Toast autumn :)

[T.I.P.]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/280438912_cbcd56a7d3_o.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

six months away but what the heck?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Knight%20of%20Autumn%20%3F%3F%20Jindrich%20PILECEK .jpg

[Stephi_B]

^oops sorry, I forgot the Southern Hemisphere... and the tropical regions which got only dry/wet season for that matter

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Oak_Acorn_1550px.jpg/715px-Oak_Acorn_1550px.jpg

[T.I.P.]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/332634433_0ca8cbc2c1.jpg

[Anna]

http://www.hot.ee/her/049.jpg




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[Hyakujo's Fox]

don't feel sorry for us - we got spring!

http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/5/24/kangaroo%20treehugger.gif
looks like a long hot summer!

[brightpearl]

I enjoyed the color when I lived in the Midwest, but here in the Friendship State autumn isn't much to get excited about. Most years everything just turns brown and falls off.

If it is by some chance beautiful, you shouldn't touch it...it's poison ivy.
http://away.com/gifs/activity/hiking/medical/poison_ivy.jpg

Lost Maples in central TX is as good as it gets.
http://www.friolodging.com/LostMaples6.jpg
There's even a river to dip your toes in when it warms up to 75 in the afternoon.

I think roasted marshmallows taste better if there are red leaves in the background, but other than that I'd be happy enough to give fall a miss, except that would just make winter get here faster.

[brightpearl]

Okay, I've been too harsh with fall.

I do enjoy my chai more when it's chilly outside.
http://www.everythingcoffee-tea.com/images/Chai_LatteBeauty%20sm.jpg

And soon there will be eggnog with which I can make myself eggnog lattes.

If it didn't make my feet and hands perpetually cold, I would probably like it okay. :)

[trisherina]

http://i20.tinypic.com/t4vcc8.jpg

[Stephi_B]

Autumn is also: Tangerines... lecker-schmecker :)
http://www.caracasa.de/media/2006-11-10/h480/DSC03725.JPG
Where's my Edding btw?... ;)

[Avalon]

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/produce/images/appleharvest.jpg

Honeycrisps are my new all time favorites.

[Stephi_B]

my favourite ufo-popsicle hidden
as it was this morning
http://www.photocase.com/de/upload/04/w3y9f8y8/photocase253796863.jpg

[Anna]

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/18/24/22572418.jpg

My leaves are turning crimson," the giant oak tree said,
"It's almost time these children should seek their winter's bed,
But how they still cling to me and gleam with crimson hue,
They truly are more lovely than cirrus clouds of blue.

"And now throughout the forest - list! hear their voices ring,
But 'tis in tones of sadness and sighing they now sing -
'Alas! 'tis gone, fair summer, and winter's reign is near,
He cruelly strips the forest of all her summer cheer
By killing all her lovely leaves and likewise flowers gay
And driving all her fairy folk to homes of far away. -stoner

[auntie aubrey]

autumn: a time for "fruity pebbles" trees in north georgia.

http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/amicalola/DSC_0116.jpg

[brightpearl]

I'll be damned. For years, I thought this was about apples.

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples; I am drowsing off.
I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the water-trough,
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and reappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
And I keep hearing from the cellar-bin
That rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking; I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall,
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised, or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.

[Marcus Bales]

The Fall Comes

All you see that moment is the sheen
Reflected off his golden coat, his tongue
A noisy comma added in between
Two panting moments, then taken from among
Them in the next; his clear and following eyes
Light up unshaded in the summer light
That fills the western window like goodbyes
Fill lyric verse; and all the world is bright
As those two quivering tears that stand unshed
As she takes in what you are shocked you've said.

And then the tears are gone: her hand around
The champagne flute is steady, and the soft sound
She makes to call the dog is calm. She turns,
They leave, the fall comes, and your life burns.

[Jack Flanders]

autumn: a time for "fruity pebbles" trees in north georgia.

http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/amicalola/DSC_0116.jpg

OMG!!! AHHHH....