Beautiful Colors of Autumn

Everything is painted with the brush of the Invisible One, let us follow the hidden signs and find the painter.

Rumi

If you tried to paint a picture of my heart, or of God
It could never be beautiful enough.

Hafiz

A cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky.
The morning saw it and crowned it with splendor.

Tagore

Seeing This

He is the tree, the fruit, and the shade
He is the sun, the light, and the dream
The word and its meaning:
A point in the All
Form in the formless
Infinity in a void.

Kabir saw all this And was blessed.

Kabir

Thank you Inda, these are absolutely beautiful.

Beautiful thread. Thank you for posting.
Here where I live we do get the definite seasons.

From: October's Party
by George Cooper

October gave a party;
The leaves by hundrds came-
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples'
And leaves of every name.
The sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band...

Thank you Susan and yoko.


O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.

- Robert Frost, October

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

quote:

Originally posted by dear Inda:
Seeing This
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...Kabir saw all this And was blessed.

below is from http://www.allscreensaver.com/index/subcat/100/sort/dateD/start/60.html

Thank you for the colorful post.
The colors are here.

Love,
Sue

Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!
- Humbert Wolfe

Thank you all for joining in and for youl lovely images and replies.
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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

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots
may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings, as now in October.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fall here is very colorful and beautiful, but it can also get quite cold.

8th century Japanese poem


While the leaves of the bamboo rustle
On a cold and frosty night,
The seven layers of clobber I wear
Are not so warm, not so warm
As the body of my wife .

What a treat these poems and the beautiful pictures!

I will now close my eyes and search for my feelings in midst of the autumn colors ...



Autumn celebrates

itself with flaming colors

moving on in joy







Love,
Margherita

Thank you yoko and Margherita.
Your replies are crowned with beauty.

Love, Inda
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As autumn returns to earth's northern hemisphere,
and day and night are briefly,
but perfectly,
balanced at the equinox,
may we remember anew how fragile life is ----
human life, surely,
but also the lives of all other creatures,
trees and plants,
waters and winds.


May we make wise choices in how and what we harvest,
may earth's weather turn kinder,
may there be enough food for all creatures,
may the diminishing light in our daytime skies
be met by an increasing compassion and tolerance
in our hearts.
- Kathleen Jenks, Autumn Lore

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots
may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings, as now in October.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

A few incisive mornings,
A few ascetic eves, -
Gone Mr. Bryant's golden-rod,
And Mr. Thomson's sheaves.

- Emily Dickinson, Nature: XLIX

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life.
- Krishnamurti

November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.
- Clyde Watson

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the
landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
- Andrew Wyeth

Colors burst in wild explosions
Fiery, flaming shades of fall
All in accord with my pounding heart
I Thought it was nice to bring back this colourful post. Autumn is still here and the colors are very bright.

Love,
Vicky


Behold the autumn-weaver
In bronze and yellow dying
Colors unfold into dreams
In hordes of a thousand and one
The bleeding
Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer
Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming
Colors burst within
Spare me those unending fires
Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall
- Dark Tranquility, With the Flaming Shades of Fall

There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good of you to bring back this post Vicky.
There are so many nice old posts here and it would be a pity to leave them buried and forgotten.

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



Robert Bateman

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year,
bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such
superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905

It is wonderful of you to bring back this beautiful thread Vicky.

Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!

- Humbert Wolfe

I found this lovely image on one of the old posts.

Thank you Vicky, and thank you everyone for adding your beautiful colours to this old post.



There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots
may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings, as now in October.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our colourful fall is still very beautiful.



When I speak
My lips feel cold -
The autumn wind.
- Basho

Thank you yoko.

You have been very busy adding a lot of vibrant color to this thread.

Love, Inda
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It is only her in large portions of Canada that wonderous second wind,
the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection, -- the
temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost
flavoured air: Enough to live -- enough to merely be.
- Walt Whitman, Diary in Canada

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

Autumn is really here again, and the leaves are changing colour.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
- John Muir

Thank you for bringing back this thread Sue.

Autumn is really here; the leaves are changing and the birds are flying south.


"They travel with a constant companion, autumn.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand, shadowless like Silence, listening
To Silence."

- Thomas Hood

Let us not forget the beautiful and vibrant flowers of autumn.



"The scarlet of maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
to see the frosty asters like smoke
upon the hills."

- William Bliss Carman

"A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air."

- Eric Sloane

Thank you girls for bringing back this thread. I love the autumn colours.

I remember a poem by Emily Dickinson

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

Thank you for this lovely picture Sue.




Along this road Goes no one; This autumn evening.

-Basho

You are welcome yoko.


Here is one of your autumn pictures by Katsuhiko,
from your Kyoto Gardens post.

He says a word,
and I say a word - autumn
is deepening.

-Takahama, Kyoshi