Not done one of these for a while, but whimsy do’th take hold of one’s soul this crisp morning. It is the season of the witch, the season of fading light, the time of golden and brown. A time much beloved of writers, poets and pagans, which George and Emily certainly were… In my mind at least.

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

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ~ Emily Bronte

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. L.M. Montgomery

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams ~ J/R/R. Tolkien

Aprils have never meant that much to me. Autumns seem that season of beginning.~ Truman Capote

That season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness. ~ Jane Austen

And a final word from that most wise of all sages and inventor of games with stick…

It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves! ~ Winnie the Pooh