Thanks to all who participated in my AUTUMN TEA GIVEAWAY! The odds were definitely in Susie Q's favor due to extra entries she earned for referring friends to this blog. And, I thank you for that, Susie Q! But alas, when an old fashioned drawing was conducted, another name emerged.
I am posting all of the wonderful autumn contributions below. Please take a moment to peruse the beautiful images that each quote or poem creates.
And, Bliss, just send me an email with your name and address. I will order the tea and have it shipped directly to you.
Bliss said... "I love Autumn!"
grannyannie said... "Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." -Stanley Horowitz
Susie Q said...
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
-Emily Dickinson
Mary said... "The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying down the street before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic blast. Indian Summer. The last warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest Moon. The Hunter's Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the wind. The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of burning leaves." - Keith C. Heidorn
SusieStarr said...
October gave a party,
the leaves by hundreds came,
the Chestnuts, Oaks and Maples,
and leaves of every name.
The sunshine spread a carpet,
and everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
From "October's Party" by George Cooper
jamiely78 said...
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
- John Donne
Sheila said...
"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
Bobbi Jo said...
"Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined
And spreads a common feast for all that live."
-James Thomson
Sherrylinn said... “Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”
-William Cullen Bryant
Cyndi Evans said... "Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. "-Elizabeth LawrenceCarolyn
(Harbor Hon) said... "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." -Emily Bronte
Mary Isabella and Kiley too! said... "When you look at the colors of fall you know the one holding the paint brush is God. He breathed and the the result was everlasting beauty." -Mary Boisseau, Sept '09
Joyce said... "Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter." -Carol Bishop Hipps
Pam said... "The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born..." -Rabindranath Tagore
PEA said... "Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower." -Albert Camus
Susie said... (a repeated favorite) "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." -Emily Bronte
Sandy said...
"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold.
-Autumn Tea Entry [on Facebook]
Sharon said... "I don't have a quote right off the top of my head, but I truly love autumn. It is a time of so much color. I like to drive around and see the changing colors of the hills."
Mary said... "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
Denise ~ Charleston, South Carolina said... "It was autumn, and incessant/Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves/And, like living coals, the apples/Burned among the withering leaves." -Longfellow
annalene said... "I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." -Nathanial Nathaniel Hawthorne
NOTE: Links to contributors can be found in the Comments section of this post.
Today, I'm sharing some tea-full fun for this splendid autumn day! I am delighted by this Customizable Tea Mug Cozy created by Kate at KnitStorm. She apparently sells these on Etsy; however, she is acclimating to motherhood, so a brief break is in order. Most of her links can be found on her blog, KnitStorm.
