Changing Seasons Autumn -- Terry Redlin
Autumn
Autumn is the season between summer and winter. The Northern Hemisphere, the northern half of the earth, has autumn weather during late September, October, and November. Autumn weather does not last so long in the polar region, where extremely cold winter weather begins earlier. In tropical regions, seasonal changes are not great. The Southern Hemisphere has autumn from March until early June.
Many people call this season fall because it is the period of falling leaves. Autumn is also harvest time for many crops. In North America, early autumn days are generally warm and nights are cool. As winter approaches, the air becomes chillier and frost often occurs at night. In much of North America, the end of autumn is marked by the freezing of lakes and streams, southern migration of birds, and prewinter snowstorms.
Autumn--especially September--is the season when most hunicanes occur. Hunicanes cause great damage along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the westem North Atlantic Ocean. from World Book
Autumn
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
Emily Dickinson
Autumn Song
Now's the time when children's noses
All become as red as roses
And the colour of their faces
Makes me think of orchard places
Where the juicy apples grow,
And tomatoes in a row.
Come then, find your ball and racket,
Pop into your winter jacket,
With the lovely bear-skin lining.
While the sun is brightly shining,
Let us run and play together
And just love the autumn weather.
Katherine Mansfield
The Last Leaf
 
A few leaves stay for a while on the trees
After their color begins to turn,
And no other leaves seem as gold as these
No even the ones our bonfires burn
With golden flames in piles on the ground.
A few leaves stay so long the I found
The one last leaf on a tree in the snow,
And when a galloping wind came round
The edge of our house and started to blow
Snow dust to sparkles floating free.
When the wind ran away, almost with me,
And sunshine settled quiet and cold.
There, like a bird, still on the tree
Was that lonesome leaf, no longer gold
But curly and brown an dry and old.
Harry Behn
     
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence~
An Autumn Day
Pumpkins in the cornfields,
Gold among the brown,
Leaves of rust and scarlet
Trembling slowly down;
Birds that travel southward,
Lovely time to play;
Nothing is as pleasant
As an autumn day!
Carmen Lagos Signes
Youth is like spring, an over
praised season more remarkable
for biting winds than genial breezes.
Autumn is the mellower season,
and what we lose in flowers
we more than gain in fruits.
~Samuel Butler~
Fall
The last of October
We lock the garden gate
The flowers alive all withered
That used to stand straight.
The last of October
We put the swings away
And the porch looks deserted
Where we like to play.
The last of October
The birds have all flown,
The screens are in the attic,
The sandpile's all gone;
Everything is put away
Before it starts to snow ---
I wonder if the ladybugs
Have any place to go.
~Aileen Fisher~
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale~
A few links to enjoy!
 
Autumn Gardening Tips
Fall Foliage on the Web
Kids Domain-Fall Fun
Autumn Leaves
Autumn - Changing Colors
Autumn/Fall Coloring Pages
Autumn / Fall Season
Autumn Days
Autumn-Fall
Autumn Activities
Autumn Links
Things to do this autumn
Autumn Poetry
DLTK's Autumn Activities
The Scientific Basis For Autumn
Autumn Leaf Scrapbook
Fall (Autumn)-EnchantedLearning.com
The Autumn Season
If winter is slumber and spring is birth,
and summer is life, then autumn rounds
out to be reflection. It's a time of year
when the leaves are down and the
harvest is in and the perennials are
gone. Mother Earth just closed up the
drapes on another year and it's time to
reflect on what's come before.
Mitchell Burgess,
Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
"The Last Days of Autumn"
midi by
 2003 Bruce DeBoer
Used with permission of the composer.
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