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"I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colors richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colors, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death." — Lin Yutang —

Ozymandias by Percy Busshe Shelley

Ozymandias

by Percy Busshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale." — Lauren DeStefano, Wither —

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"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize." — George Eliot —

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"After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth ... The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her ... In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible." — Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond —

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"Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." — John Howard Bryant, Indian Summer —

The Tiny, Tiny Boy and the Big, Big Cow

Title: The Tiny, Tiny Boy and the Big, Big Cow

Author: Nancy Van Laan

Illustrator: Marjorie Priceman

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

   All the tiny, tiny boy wants to do is milk the big, big Cow. But she has hard, hard heels, a long, long tail, and sharp, sharp horns - and she WON'T stand still! What's a tiny, tiny boy to do? Shake a fat, fat stick, find a sweet, sweet kitten, and try the perfect solution...