FALL COLLAGES

"Everyone must take time to sit
and watch the leaves turn."
Elizabeth Lawrence

"A tangerine and russet cascade
Of kaleidoscopic leaves
Creates a tapestry of autumn magic
Upon the emerald carpet of fading summer."
Judith A. Lindberg

"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn."
John Muir

"The leaves are falling, falling as from way off,
as though far gardens withered in the skies;
they are falling with denying gestures.
And in the nights the heavy earth is falling
from all the stars down into loneliness.
We all are falling. This hand falls.
And look at others: it is in them all.
And yet there is one who holds this falling
endlessly gently in his hands."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow