Cast Iron Owl

 This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. - Mervyn Peake

Same Tree Different Day

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you. - Stephen King

Storm's A-Brewin'

But now the Summer is no more, 
Its warm blue sky has vanished;
And in the trees the wind doth roar,
And flowers sweet are banished. - David Irving Dobson

October Party

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

Homemade Apple Cider Caramels

I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting. - Mark Twain

Delicious Autumn

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

Creepy Color

"Once the Virginia creeper wreathed through the barn walnut has turned wine-red and nights contract with an autumn chill, it is time to hunt deer.  Mornings hunting and mornings writing alternate in October, as if hunting and writing were two aspects of one practice."  Hunting from Home - Christopher Camuto

Fall Days

Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves.
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves.
~Humbert Wolfe

Scary Skeleton

Trying this again.

A Lovely Day

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Kuan Yin

Oh My Darlin'

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. - Luciano Pavarotti

Blue Balls

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.  - Thomas Carlyle

Cardinal

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky. - Maya Angelou