Mazilique inspired me to make my top 10 rules for this season:

1. Sleep in as long as I can, especially during weekend days
2. Reading good books, with thick socks on, a nice warm blanket and my favorite tea (at the moment green tea with jasmine)
3. Restart knitting, so many gifts to finish till Xmas
4. Making plans for my Scotland trip in October and maybe if I am lucky a Canary Island visit in November
5. Preparing the Xmas shopping list
6. Baking - from apple pie to various trifles
7. Going to the sauna and get warm oil massages
8. Wearing comfy dresses and thick stockings
9. Jeans, boots and leather jacket - perfect autumn combo!
10. Planning my birthday :)

Autumn rules!

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Jenny had come up with one great theme, namely autumn joy which gave me the opportunity to show you some lovely shots from a walk in the park under the October sun

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~Carol Bishop Hipps

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

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

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

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.
~George Cooper, "October's Party"

P.S. And yes, I am back :-)

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