Summer is my favorite season (which is good because it was 86 F / 30 C here this weekend), but there's nothing like a crisp fall day with blue skies and colorful leaves.
In Memoriam of Summer, with a little help from Tennyson, which reads in part:
Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only thro' the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground:
Calm and deep peace on this high world,
And on these dews that drench the furze,
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold:
Calm and still light on yon great plain
That sweeps with all its autumn bowers,
And crowded farms and lessening towers,
To mingle with the bounding main:
Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair:
Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
And waves that sway themselves in rest,
And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
Photos from my walk today. It was pretty chilly and VERY windy but still beautiful. The leaves are starting to change on a few trees, but still primarily green. #nature#pedestrianadventures#Fall#LeafPeeping
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