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hello october

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october calendar by nikki mcclureThere was much excitement as we turned the page on our calendars today.  The girls are vibrating as they repeat “27 days until our birthday!” and then, of course, there is the Halloween buzz too.  I love this time of year, when the leaves start to change colours and we pull out our long ignored sweaters and toed shoes.  The crispness in the air is often balanced with the heat from a sun with reminders of the summer we so enjoyed. We are settling into this new season gently with promises of cozy crafting and story time by the fire.  Nikki McClure‘s October calendar page is just so perfect as we love going to the beach to catch the golden sunshine at this time of year…..and one of our favourite things to do is make mermaid fairy houses while we are there! Setting autumn leaf boats afloat is such fun too.   Tell me, how do you most like to play during this magic season?

autumn beauty

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There are not enough words to capture the beauty of this season, but this poem from Mary Oliver is a great place to start…

Song for Autumn

In the deep fall
don’t you imagine the leaves think how
comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of air and the endless
freshets of wind? And don’t you think
the trees themselves, especially those with mossy,
warm caves, begin to think
of the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleep
inside their bodies? And don’t you hear
the goldenrod whispering goodbye,
the everlasting being crowned with the first
tuffets of snow? The pond
vanishes, and the white field over which
the fox runs so quickly brings out
its blue shadows. And the wind pumps its
bellows. And at evening especially,
the piled firewood shifts a little,
longing to be on its way.

More Autumn poems (including another by Mary Oliver) can be found here at Poet Seers.

Don’t you just love this time of year?  Does it make the words swirl poetic in your mind like the golden leaves in the wind?  Does your mind long to capture the images like my camera, to hold still this beautiful time of change?