October Is Finally Here!

My favorite month of the year, the one I wait for

 with great anticipation, is finally here!

Bring out the cozy sweaters, the hot apple cider. Its time for lazy Sunday

drives in the country to gaze on golden fields and orange trees.

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 
~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: 

We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls,

 and calls each vagabond by name.” 
~William Bliss

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy

 and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars

 in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. 

O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” 
~Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled

 the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep

 burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed 

yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels,

 emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color 

shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful

 unexpected thing might be possible.” 
~ Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.” 
~ Susan Lendroth, Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep

“Anne reveled in the world of color about her."Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming 

dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad 

I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible

 if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look 

at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?” 
~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.” 
~Ernest Dowson, The Poems and

 Prose of Ernest Dowson

This month is filled with joys and my wish is that you

and yours are able to enjoy them all.

Warmly,

Susie Q