Autumn Quotes

The weather today reminds me that winter is closing in fast and we will soon say good bye to the fall season. In honor of the fall season I wanted to share some beautiful quotes about autumn. Enjoy!

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus


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


It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James


Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps


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


No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
~Thomas Hood, "No!"


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz

Time To Batten Down The Hatches

Unfortunately our summer has final come to a close. Today is the first official day of fall. I have to say that I do enjoy the beginning of the fall season. It's so peaceful to watch the leaves change colors and fall from the trees. The air always smells so fresh and clean. It's also time for my husband and I to start doing our yearly winterizing. This includes getting our boat and wave runner ready for storage. We keep them in our garage that needs to be cleaned desperately. As you can imagine the boat takes up about half of the garage space. There isn't much room left for us to store other things. One item I wish would just disappear is my husbands wood splitter project. We couldn't afford to buy our own, so my handy hubby decided he was going to build his own for half the price. That was about a year ago and it's still sitting in the garage taking up space. I wish I could move it myself, but the steal pieces must weigh about 300 pounds a piece. I know that he has been waiting to order some extra parts such as industrial clamps. These clamps will help him hold the machine together while he completes the welding. I might just go and purchase these parts myself. Maybe this is just the thing to get him motivated to finish this project. It will be nice when the wood splitter is complete. I can't wait to have our very own wood splitter for those long winter months. It will really help with heating our home.

Where Did Spring Go??

I think spring forgot to sprung. It was so beautiful out the past few days. I thought for sure that summer was finally on it's way. Me and the hubby worked on the yard all weekend. I even dug up bulbs and transplanted the new baby's. We started making plans to have our driveway and walkway repaired. We had our friend who owns his own company come out on Sunday and gives us a quote. Now I hear today they are talking about snow for this weekend. What's up with that. I think this has been the longest winter I can remember in a long time.