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This beautiful male goldfinch was shot through my kitchen window while finishing the last of the sunflower blooms.
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings as now in October.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it’s not yet over, but there’s no denying the time of day.
― Vicki Covington
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But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.
-- C. S. Lewis
There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.
-- William Sharp
for not being around much. Yesterday, 28th January, we suffered an extremely close family bereavement, so I am not able to be on Flickr very much. Please forgive my absences. You are all very special to me, but this is something which has devastated us. (My husband's son died suddenly at the age of 48 from an unknown cause. He was buried yesterday, 8th January - a moving and wonderful experience - but painful, as you can imagine.)
Thanks so much for your understanding and I hope things will return to normal before too long. Meanwhile, I hope you like this painting of Windermere under thick cloud.