Autumn's Smile

long shadows

golden light

red rushing leaves

Autumn

...

what is it about this season that makes one sigh

do we feel a bit of relief from the summers' crazy days filled with all our projects 

running here  ~   running there 

although these days are filled with much work

harvesting the last in the garden, canning, buttoning up

it is a sense of "well done"

Fall is the time for lingering evening dinners

stews and soups

baking bread

evening fires

long walks though the colorful woods

tis a time for reflection

  autumn 
  the year's last 
  loveliest smile 
                   >>. William Cullen Bryant

winter is an etching

spring a watercolor

summer an oil painting 

& autumn a mosaic of them all

                  >>. Stanley Horowitz

new in the Little ZiBagz Shoppe............

Wandering Ivy Keepsake Wristlet

how right it is to love flowers 
and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges
they have been with us from the very beginning
>>.Vincent van Gogh

        peace and sunshine to you

delicious fall

Yummy Autumn

Ragtime Dream Keepsake Mini Clutch

On the Road to Monaco Zipper Pouch

as I sit at my little sewing machine 

looking out the window

the leaves are rustling in the breeze

the rain is dripping from the eaves

colors are popping out all over 

summer flowers have faded

leaving a few stragglers

  there is a bit of somberness about autumn... 

  crazy days of summer have past..

                   changing seasons.. 

                    days are shortening..

                      nights are darker..

                       a chill hoovers in the air

Highlander Keepsake Wallet Clutch

wherever I wander 
wherever I rove
the hills of the Highlands for ever I love
>>.. Robert Burns

 la Fleur Zipper Pouch

Autumn Splendor Zip Pouch

I cannot endure to waste anything 

as precious as autumn sunshine 

by staying in the house

so I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air

♦.. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vintage Rose Keepsake Wristlet 

I feel as if I had opened a book 
and found roses of yesterday 
sweet and fragrant
between its leaves
>>.. L.M. Montgomery

I'm thinking a spot of tea 

sounds wonderful about now 

~ enjoy!

perfectly fall day

the weather has been absolutely glorious!

Saturday was a perfect day hike kind of day....

so off we went

Pinnacle Peak Trail . . . Rainier National Park

Tatoosh Mountain Range

Autumn is just starting to show her colors...

the leaves are all falling

and they're falling like

they're falling in love with the ground

Andrea Gibson

I would rather sit on a pumpkin

and have it all to myself

than be crowded on a velvet cushion

Henry David Thoreau

If you are faced with a mountain

you have several options

you can climb it & cross to the other side

you can go around it

you can did under it

you can fly over it

you can blow it up

you can ignore it & pretend it's not there

you can turn around & go back the way you cam

or you can stay on the mountain & make it your home

Vera Nazarian

met these guys along the way

they were going to make the most of the day

by skiing on a wee bit of patch of glacier snow 

        the mountains were his masters

              they were rimmed in life

                they were the cup of reality

                         beyond growth

                beyond struggle and death

         they were his absolute unity 

   in the midst of eternal change

Thomas Wolfe