Beautiful Colors of Autumn

"Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life."

- Krishnamurti

Our autumn here is still beautiful This is quite unusual for this time of the year. There are still flowers blooming and some trees have still some coloured leaves.

Love,
Vicky

Artist: Tom Thompson

Summer has suddenly come to an end, and autumn is in the air.

The winds that blows -
ask them, which leaf on the tree
will be next to go.

-Takahama, Kyoshi

I just had to add this lovely image from the' Japanese Garden' post.



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I have already put a note in the waiting room for patients, that like to look at Givnology, that we are not allowed to show some images, even if it is for educational purposes.

Let us look to the animals for enlightenment.

Autumn is with us for a short time only.
Soon it is winter.

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

Yoko Ono

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”

William Cullen

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

John Muir

Thank you yoko, these are really beautiful autumn pictures. I guess autumn is coming to an end and winter is almost here. Our weather has been really mild this year, almost doesn't feel that Christmas is almost here.

Love,
Vicky

Painting by Tom Thompson

Thank you yoko and Vicky, for sending autumn out with such magnificent scenery.

Love, Inda
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Thank you for these beautiful pictures.
You are right Vicky, it is very mild here and it really does not feel like winter is almost here.

Sincerely,
Gisele

Thank you for your kind replies.
Autumn is slowly passing into winter.

Love,
yoko

Coveted by all
Turning into such beauty-
The falling red leaves.

Shiko (1664-1731)


Picture from Greater Victoria Art Gallery

Autumn has arrived.

The trees are slowly starting to change colour.
Enjoy this beautiful and colourful season.

Love,
yoko

You are right yoko, autumn is here.
The weather is getting cooler and the trees have just a hint of yellow and red. We do not have a great deal of autumn colours yet because our summer was unusually hot.
The plants and trees a a little bit confused

Soon we will see this:

You are right girls, autumn is definitely here. It was cool this morning, but you are right Inda, the trees have not yet changed colour, but there is a yellowish glow to the leaves. Soon they will be all yellow and red.

Love,
Vicky

I agree, autumn is here, and it was cold early this morning.There is a definite change in the air.
The leaves are still green here, but we have a different type of flowers, than in the spring or summer, blooming in the gardens right now.

I like all the autumn colours, and it is nice and warm again today. i like to walk and look at the different gardens at this time of the year.

Love,
Vicky

Autumn has arrived again.





I leave. You stay. Two autumns.


Buson (1716 - 1784)

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color


Buson (1716 - 1784)

The geese and many birds are flying south for the winter.



Calligraphy of geese by Yosa Buson

Calligraphy of geese
against the sky--
the moon seals it.

“This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.”
― Matsuo Bashō

Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
Blown from the west,

fallen leaves gather
in the east.

“Harvest moon:
around the pond I wander
and the night is gone.”
― Matsuo Bashō

Thank you for the lovely images yoko, and for bringing back this thread.
Autumn is here again with all its beautiful colours.

I have added another beautiful picture from one of your earliest posts.



“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”
― Leo Tolstoy

Nice thread.

Autumn is here and all beings need to look for a shelter for winter.

When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall."


― T. Greenwood,

...Is not autumn the ancient in you singing a lullaby to that is still a child in your being?...

Kahlil Gibran
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Picture from "Canadian Gardening," summer 2013

“The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

― Rabindranath Tagore
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Picture from "Canadian Gardening," summer 2013

Thank you for continuing this thread. I love the autumn colours even though they don't last very long.



Sincerely,
Gisele

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
― Lauren DeStefano

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

~Rumi
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quote:

When I speak
My lips feel cold -
The autumn wind.

- Basho

Autumn is coming to and end, and the air is very cold.
The last of the autumn colours will be with us again next year.

Love,
yoko

I don't want to make anyone sad, but autumn colours are beginning to show. Summer has gone, but autumn here is actually very beautiful and colouful.

Love,
Vicky

You are right Vicky,
autumn is definitely in the air.

Foot and mout painting by Stanislaw Kmiecic

Autumn colors are truly here.
I se3e all these flowers in averyones gardens.

A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky.

Japanese saying


Autumn has arrived and the trees are changing color.

Our autumn colours are really beautiful at the moment. Enjoy!

Autumn is here and the colours are starting to change.

Enjoy these vibrant colours while they last.

Thank you yoko for the lovely autumn images.