AN AUTUMN MOSAIC

(Collage by Susanna Bayer and Sharon Wilhite)

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all."

(Stanley Horowitz)

AUTUMN FACES

(Photo Collage by Gail Smith and Sharon Wilhite)

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace 

As I have seen in one autumnal face."

(John Donne)

A BOUQUET OF LEAVES

(Photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

(Albert Camus)

ARTISTIC AUTUMN

(Photo by Gail Smith)

"Artistic autumn - when every leaf is a masterpiece, a watercolor painting in miniature from the hand of God."

(Sharon Wilhite)

PLEASANT OCTOBER!

(Photo Collage by Michelle Rayburn and Gail Smith)

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."  (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

PUMPKIN SEASON

(Photo collage by Gail Smith and Sharon Wilhite)

Oh how we love pumpkin season.  You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right?  Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year.  ~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer, October 2010

OCTOBER - THE PICTURE MONTH

(Photo Collage by Gail Smith and Sharon Wilhite)

"October is the opal month of the year.  It is the month of glory, of ripeness.  It is the picture month.

(Henry Ward Beecher)

ONE RED LEAF

(Photo by Sharon Wilhite)

"The one RED leaf, the last of its clan,

That dances as often as dance it can,

Hanging so light, and hanging so high,

On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky."

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)