Cumbria, England
Autumn colors will peak this month in most of the Northern Hemisphere. How inspiring is it? If you search online for “landscape paintings,” over half the images you see will have been painted in October. Ditto photographs. And if you’re south of the equator, we’ll look for your pictures in March. Wherever you are, enjoy your first weekend of Ahhh!ctober!
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What a great observation natural colors are fantastic. I shift my writing in the high gear once October comes.
It really is an inspiring time, Mark.
Superb 🙂
Ha! I love what you did with “October.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
;>)
October in the Engadin is also gorgeous, when the larches turn yellow. (The Engadin is a valley in the Swiss mountains). I would have loved to see the Indian summer one day, but it has never worked out.
My only visit to Switzerland was in late summer. Would love to have been there in autumn, Petra!
My husband and I are doing our annual leaf-peeping trip tomorrow!
The Good Lord is quite an artist. 😁
He is indeed, Nancy!
Traumhaft 🌼🌞
Hi Mitch, thank you for this post!
My pleasure, Charles, and good to hear from you!
Autumnal hues fill our skies with such beauty, don’t they? It’s incredible what effect nature has on us!
BBB
Hi Mitch. Thanks for your continuing work, both prolific and profound. My late arrival to digital writing and blogging is my reason for inconsistencies and absences as a correspondent. About a month ago now. I responded to a comment in a string on one of your posts and could not stop my device from pinging with many additional replies and then replies to those replies. I eventually reset myself as a weekly follower of your blog, which gives me a roundup or digest of your work. That is, as Marshall McLuhan might have once said, a cooler level of media connection, as in more distant and at times easier to set aside and even to procrastinate in responding. I hope you do not mind me reprinting below a blog poem I wrote about autumn about 2 or 3 years ago. I was inspired in part by autumn’s amazing colours and smells, in particular the scent of fallen leaves in early decay, so much like the scent of my grandfather’s tin of cigarettes when he flipped open its lid for his 20th cigarette of the day (along with 3 or 4 cigars). He had emphysema, but not the worst of possible side effects of this lifelong habit.
EMERGENCY
The deadly season has arrived
Fallen leaves:
A dying tapestry
Mellow and sombre
Pensive and anxious too.
A quiet tang is in the air:
The scent of an unsmoked cigarette,
My grandfather
Tapping his silver case;
The fumes of his lighter snapped shut
His cuffed trousers
Legs folded,
Even the bones in his hands
Creamy white knuckles
And scorched brown thumbnail
Were for me the child then
An encounter
A rehearsal of death to come
A grand finale, going out sale
Everything must go!
Autumn is a time of enduring memory
A beginning of the ends of things
The longed-for surrender of a merciless summer.
Leaves descend, swift and sly.
Soon the hibernation of flesh will sink,
Will yield
To an emergency of bones:
Branches stripped bare.
But until then,
How can the serene beauty
Of this fallen season
This embroidery of crimson golds
Emerald greens, impudent mauves
And shameless crimson berries,
Waving and hovering
A slow silent dirge
Past the exhausted stalks and spilled seeds
Be forgotten
By my child within?
Remembering love past
Present
And still to come.
Lovely, and with so many layers, Xavier.
I love autumn and I have been to a couple of the named places. I would love to walk through central park in autumn.
I can’t wait for it to get chilly again. It’s 84 today in Massachusetts. Madness!
:>O
‘Must be all the shades of yellow and orange that inspire artists–such cheerful and energizing colors!
These are beautiful and defo represent the epitome of Autumn/Fall! Stunners, Mitch! Cher xoxoxo
Beautiful pictures! I may have mentioned that my favorite month is October.
Mine too, Jeff.
Gorgeous photos!
October is a beautiful month! Nothing like the colors of autumn!
Gorgeous! i love Ahh!ctober!
Lovely images and fall colors!
My favorite season!
These are beautiful and a reminder of the glory of Autumn. I like the Mount Fuji as my favourite image but they are all wonderful.
Beautiful images
How I love autumn, and you captured its spirit so well with these photos and thoughts 😊🙏🏻
My pleasure, and thanks, Dalo.
I love fall!!! The weather is beautiful!! The leaves are amazing! Awesome pics!
Who doesn’t love beautiful fall colors?
Wonderful! Terrific sets of color! If they were year-’round, I wonder how we might get used to them. Happy October!
Thank you, Christopher!
I LOVE Fall and these colors. Hey Mitch! Hope you don’t mind me following with this blog as well. I’m trying to get this one off the ground. It’s hard to start all over again! lol. But it’s doing alright. Thank you for your support!
Delighted to hear that, Max!
Thanks Mitch!
Wow, gorgeous and inspiring autumn art!
Java Bean: “Ayyy, out here, it’s kicking things off with Hottober! Yesterday was the hottest day Mama and Dada can remember, and it’s not even summer anymore!”
El más bonito para mí es el de Monet .
Se titula “impression soleil lévant” y por este cuadro llamaron a todos los pintores similares Impresionistas
No lo sabía, Ana!
Sadly for me I can only enjoy the pictures 😔… these are beautiful Mitch. Thankyou.
My pleasure, Iba. 🧡
Thank you for these beautiful pictures, Mitch. Do you think it might be possible that people also become more beautiful in the “October” years of life, just like trees? Something to ponder…
To God, yes. To us, well, we tend to look at the bark instead of what’s inside.
Such stunning hues in your selection. Welcome autumn! 🤓🥂
I think John Denver said it, this is “Far Out Man!”
He said that about a lot of things. ;>)