Chrysanthemum in Fall

Autumn, Eric Sloane

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

- Eric Sloane (1905-1985)

October, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

October turned my maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers.
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), October

A depot with Mexican Asters

A depot with Mexican Asters

A depot with Mexican Asters

A depot with Mexican Asters

Hadong Bookchun in Korea

Personality, Western Proverb

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

- Western Proverb

Beauty, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), The Little Prince

Advice, Chinese Proverb

種豆得豆。

- 中國俗談

种豆得豆 [zhòngdòudédòu]

Reap the fruits of one's actions.

- Chinese Proverb

Plant sow beans and get beans.

References

种瓜得瓜 种豆得豆 [zhòngguādéguā zhòngdòudédòu] Plant melons and get melons, sow beans and get beans. |

Advice, Chinese Proverb

種瓜得瓜。

- 中國俗談

种瓜得瓜 [zhòngguādéguā]

Reap as one has sown.

- Chinese Proverb

Farewell, William Shakespeare

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Lemon lily (Lilium parryi)

Lemon lily (Lilium parryi)

Description	English: Lemon lily (Lilium parryi). Photo by Jordan Zylstra. The high country of the San Jacinto Wilderness, both State and Federal, includes seasonally moist mountain meadows with both corn lily (Veratrum californium) and lemon lily (Lilium parryi).
Date	UNK
Source	http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/regions/Pacific_Southwest/SantaRosaSanJacintoNM/images/lemon_lily_lilium_parryi_lg.jpg
Author	Jordan Zylstra, USFS
Permission	public domain
Licensing	This image is a work of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Spring, Diane Frolov

Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

- Diane Frolov

Spring, Western Proverb

April Showers bring May flowers.

- Western Proverb

Yellow rape flowers in Jeju Island

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From http://joeungul1.blogspot.com/

Nature, Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb

Vocation, Book of Isaiah

Yet just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,

So shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
It shall not return to me empty,
but shall do what pleases me,
achieving the end for which I sent it.

+ The Book of Isaiah 55,10-11

http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/55