Fall is that time of year when pumpkin patches magically appear, football games outdoors at night seem more exciting and Saturdays at your town’s Fall Festivals are looked forward to with anticipation.
For armchair travelers, Digital Journal has put together a short pictorial tour of autumn in the United States, so grab a mug of hot apple cider and sit back and enjoy. The quotes are from GoodReads.
Quotes about Autumn
“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
― Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby
Sugarloaf Key, Florida, taken by Dr. Stephen A. Ragusea on Oct. 5, 2016.
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“Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Time and Chance
Krodel Lake is a 22-acre impounded lake created in 1948 in the Krodel Park City Recreation Area in Mason County, West Virginia.
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“It’s a beautiful fall day. Gentle wind teases stubborn autumn leaves. Some defy the gentle wind and sway. A taunting dance. Come with me and look at the magnificence of the last dance.”
― Fidelis O. Mkparu, Love’s Affliction
Fall foliage in Colorado = Photo taken by “Ann Johnson” on Sept. 23, 2016.
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May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future’s veil and show
What fate now holds for you.
~Author unknown
Pumpkin patch at Polk’s Plus in Pooler, Ga.
“Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earth has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can easily vanish!”
― Mehmet Murat Gildan
Kansas City, Missouri is all decked out for Autumn, including a celebration called Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead on October 23 at the Kansas City Museum.
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“Great artists come and go; they are born and they die; but there is one exception who has been living for thousands of years and still continues creating new works, new beauties every year: The Autumn!”
― Mehmet Murat Gildan
Autumn in Virginia. A visit to one of Virginia’s many wineries in the Shenandoah Valley.
Karen Graham
