October Thoughts

"The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,
who could ever clutch it?"

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What does the season mean to me? I think about it as I circle back to the house. The one word that expresses it would be splendor. October is the jewel set in the hand of time. I must be certain that I have given my heart humbly to the glory, which is the gift of God. October is nothing to pass carelessly, every bright hour must be cherished.

And may God bless us all and make us glad as the wonder of autumn has once again been given to us."

~ Glady Taber, The Stillmeadow Road



"What a beautiful month October is! It is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. I love to think that when the summer, with all its fullness of innate beauty, has gone through its course and is about to die, it knows how to break out with more gorgeous beauty and die with more glory on its head than it has in its positive freshness and vernal beauty."

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe