Season: Paeans to autumn..........

It happens to be my most favorite season of all....like many of you...why not? It ushers in crisp weather, rainbow-colored foliage, abundance of nuts, carpet of leaves, pumpkin patch, corn maze, hayride, apple picking, grapes-laden vineyards, the festival of ghouls and goblins, mum extravaganza, mushroom popping, among many other attractions..........

In honor of fall, here are some quotes from famous people...accompanied with pictures from my lens...

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
-L.M. Montogomery

“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!”
 -Mehmet Murat Ildan 

"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
-Lauren DeStefano

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
 - Jim Bishop

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt."
-William Allingham

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
-John Donne

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"
- Albert Camus

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."  -William Cullen Bryant

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”  -Joe L. Wheeler

“The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”  -Lee Maynard

“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light”.
-Malcolm Lowry

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns". -George Eliot

Hope you loved...and the feel and appreciation of autumn resonated with you!