Autumn in Radford Virginia

Days are stringed instruments and every one strikes a different note. 

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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Crisp Autumn Leaves

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, 

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

~ Emily Bronte

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Bath Time For Birdie

Song Sparrow

Every season hath its pleasures: 

Spring may boast her flowery prime, 

Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures 

Brighten Autumn's soberer time. 

So life's year begins and closes; 

Days, though shortening, still can shine; 

What, though youth gave loves and roses, 

Age still leaves us friends and wine.

 ~Thomas Moore

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Inside The Burning Bush

White-throated Sparrow in the "Burning Bush"

"In the garden of my life 

I'm done with anger, done with strife. 

 I cultivate my own few joys

 far from this culture's buzzing noise. 

 Colonnade and marketplace, 

fame's small change and money's race, 

academe's cold haughty tower -- 

have no meaning, hold no power. 

 Letting go of shoulds and oughts, 

I concentrate on greener thoughts 

and find as I fulfill my soul 

that things spin calmly in control, 

that though events conspire still, 

they tend to bend towards my will. 

No greater cause achieves the measure 

than that of my own reasoned pleasure." 

- Peter Saint-Andre, In the Garden

Autumn Robin

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. 

~ Cornelia L. Tuthill

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(Digital Painting version)

Mark how the forest now hath doffed its green, 

And Nature dons her cloak of many hues; 

Now reigns the holy beauty of Decay! 

How calmly sleeps the lake: the coloured woods 

Reflected on its face in thousand tints... 

Like rainbows wreck'd, all the gay woods do sing... 

~ James Rigg

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Autumn Morning at Claytor Lake State Park

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." 

Ansel Adams

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Mourning Dove

“I hold it true that thoughts are things 

Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, 

And that we send them forth to fill 

The world with good results - or ill. 

 That which we call our secret thought 

Speeds to the earth's remotest spot, 

And leaves its blessings or its woes 

Like tracks behind it as it goes. 

 It is God's law. Remember it 

In your still chamber as you sit 

With thoughts you would not dare have known, 

And yet made comrades when alone. 

 These thoughts have life; and they will fly 

And leave their impress by-and-by, 

Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned breath 

Breathes into homes its fevered breath. 

 And after you have quite forgot 

Or all outgrown some vanished thought, 

Back to your mind to make its home, 

A dove or raven, it will come. 

 Then let your secret thoughts be fair; 

They have a vital part and share 

In shaping worlds and moulding fate -- 

God's system is so intricate.” 

 ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Sit and Watch The Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time 

to sit and watch the leaves turn. 

- Elizabeth Lawrence

Autumn at Pandapas Pond in Blacksburg, Virginia

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Robin Watching

“The lure of the distant and the difficult 

is deceptive. 

The great opportunity is where you are.” 

 ― John Burroughs

Burning Brightly

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, 

a torch flung to the trees. 

~ Faith Baldwin

Eastern Towhee Male

“Love much. 

Earth has enough of bitter in it.” 

 ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Puddle Wonderful

"The world is mud-luscious and 

puddle-wonderful." 

 - e. e. cummings

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The Measure of Leaves

"Leaves drift softly earthward toward the grass
 Spring and summer blend from green to gold ...

Corby Magnuson, The Measure of Leaves



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Foggy Morning Along The Road

There are no shortcuts 

to any place worth going. 

~ Beverly Sills

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Autumn Starling with Berry

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