Across the fields October flings
Hands full of scarlet leaves,
And Nature adds a golden thread
To the tapestry she weaves.
~Bettie Paynes Welles

Not else in nature doth compare…
Far fair beyond belief…
Is love’s first kiss when/that lover’s share…
And Autumn’s Rubied Leaf.
~Marcia Lynn McClure

“My feelings, exactly!”
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
~George Eliot

“Don’t you love New York in the fall?
It makes me want to buy school supplies.”
~Tom Hanks (You’ve Got Mail)

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~Stanley Horowitz
(Submitted by Marche Siefken)

October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came-
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
~George Cooper, October’s Party
(Submitted by Marche Siefken)