Every Leaf a Flower
I welcome you, Red Harvester of yet another year.  I kindle fire
and hold my midnight watch atop a hill.  - Brett Rutherford
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  - Albert Camus
Then summer fades and passes and October comes.  We smell smoke
then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness,
swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.  - Thomas Wolfe
Autumn is the eternal corrective.  It is color and a time of maturity.  It
is breadth and depth and distance.  Who can stand with Autumn
on a hilltop and fail to see the span of this world and the meaning
of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?  - Hal Borland
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes
from its summer cottons into its winter wools.  - Henry Beston
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
In the old apple tree, starlings announce harvest time.  - Philip Noble
The bounty shines in autumn unconfined
And spreads a common feast for all.  - James Thomson
Autumn:  The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer; leaves scurrying
before the wind; the last warmth of the sun; chilly mornings and
glorious afternoons; the harvest moon; the hunter's moon; dry
corn stalks clattering in the wind; the touch of frost on
the window pane; the smell of burning leaves.  - Keith Heidorn
Listen!  With faint dry sound, like steps of passing ghosts,
The frost-crisp'd leaves break free from the trees and fall.  - Author Unknown
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of autumn have put their glory on.
- William Cullen Bryant
'Tis then I love to wander, wander idly and alone,
Listening to the solemn music of sweet nature's undertone;
Wrapt in thoughts I cannot utter, dreams that I cannot express,
Dreams that match the autumn's sadness in their longing tenderness.
- Mortimer Crane Brown
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.  - Stanley Horowitz
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Look at the leaves as they eddy down, crumpled yellow and withered brown,
Swirling, billowing, drifting by, with a whisper soft  and a rustling sigh,
Starting aloft to windy ways, telling the coming of bonfire days.
- Grace Strickler Dawson
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