English: Maple tree with red leaves in the morning mist. Western Estonia.
Eesti: Udusse mattuv harilik vaher, punaste sügislehtedega. Läänemaa.
Русский: Клен с красными листьями в утреннем тумане. Западная Эстония.
Photo: 3 October 2016.
Source: Own work.
Author: Aleksander Kaasik.
(Wikimedia Commons)
"Autumn".
Composer: Vivaldi.
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SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness !
Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and Bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
"Autumn Gold".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Illustration: JOHN ATKINSON GRIMSHAW
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of Poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they ?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, —
While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then, in a wailful choir, the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or, sinking as the light wind, lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The Redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering Swallows twitter in the skies.
"To Autumn".
John Keats.
1795-1821.
Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
English: Wildpark, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Photo: 19 October 2014.
Source: This file was derived from: Dülmen, Wildpark -- 2014 -- 3808.jpg
Author: Dietmar Rabich (edited by Sting)
(Wikimedia Commons)
Autumn has now arrived in England.
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Autumn, also known as "The Fall" in American and Canadian English, is one of the four Temperate Seasons.
Autumn marks the transition from Summer to Winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools down considerably. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.
