Autumn evening
She prepares a hot tea cup
With honey and lemon.

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“AUTUMNAL

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.” 

― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

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Somehow this does not fit the weather outside, I experienced today the first snow this winter, in Helsinki. Rather strange, I had to look at the date three times, the 26th of October 2012 and already 6 cm snow! Nevertheless the green and blue of this picture make me smile, it warms my heart and reminds me of what the Germans call 'Golden October'!

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