Azure

Listen!  the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,

We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

~ Humbert Wolfe

 There is a harmony

In autumn, and a lustre in its sky...

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley  

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

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

Ho! for the leaves that eddy down, 

Crumpled yellow and withered brown, 

Hither and yonder and up the street 

 And trampled under the passing feet; 

Swirling, billowing, drifting by, 

With a whisper soft and a rustling sigh....

~ Grace Strickler Dawson

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

~ Emily Bronte

photo #1 my backyard

photo #2 crabapple loaded with berries

photo #3 birch

photo #4 spiderweb in the hawthorne

photo #5 my backyard

This post is for SkyWatch Friday hosted by Wren, fishing guy, Sylvia, Klaus, and Sandy.  Come join us in this awesome meme, link up, and meet folks from all over the globe. 

This post is also for the etsy bloggers' team carnival.   Linda of Spotted Cow Soaps is the host and will post all the submissions on her blog on Monday, October 11 HERE.  For this carnival, Linda asks us to "Show us some awesome photos of autumn in and around where you live."

photos by me © 2010 (taken today in my yard)

Happy May Day!

"....All things seem possible in May." ~Edwin Way Teale

Tis like the birthday of the world,

When earth was born in bloom... ~Thomas Hood

Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? ~Edward Giobbi

When April steps aside for May,

Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;

Fresh violets open every day:

To some new bird each hour we listen.

~Lucy Larcom

For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1890)

NOTES: white crysanthemums from my garden, azaela in North Carolina in the spring, yellow blooming palo verde tree (Arizona), robin and baby in holly tree, cactus bloom (Arizona)

photos by me© 2006-2009