Diane M Kellogg
The Leaves of Autumn

A pictorial essay with a bit of poetry.

'Fall Leaves and Acorns' (1885) by Ellen Bowditch Thayer Fisher Public Domain
"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
- Author Unknown

Photo Credit Couleur from Pixabay
"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

Photo Credit LoggaWiggler from Pixabay
“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”
- C. S. Lewis

Photo Credit r-m-VsHKLFiJnIE Unsplash
"Looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Photo Credit Frank Luca Unsplash
"The leaves fall patiently
Nothing remembers or grieves
The river takes to the sea
The yellow drift of leaves."
- Sara Teasdale

Photo Credit StockSnap from Pixabay
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster 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

Photo Credit Waldrebell from Pixabay
"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods."
- William Allingham

Photo Credit Mabel Amber from Pixabay
"Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!"
- Humbert Wolfe

Photo Credit Frank Luca Unsplash
"The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face."
- E. A. Robinson
May these photos and poetry inspire you to paint a festival of fall colors!
Cover Photo Credit Designecologist Unsplash
Poetry credited to each individual author.