Autumn

Baraboo, Wisconsin

This is the closest I've been to missing my deadline. I've maintained this blog for several years and have always made at least one post per month, which has been a goal I set for myself. But here I am, the last day of September 2019, sliding in with a big sigh of "that was close."

Tomorrow starts October, which I've always viewed as the beginning of autumn even though the calendar states otherwise. Some areas of the country are still battling summer heat, but I'm currently in Colorado and hope to enjoy some cooler temperatures and pretty color for a bit.

Below are some quotes and poems referencing my favorite season. I included one of my own from a short story called Precipice which I shared here recently.

Baraboo, Wisconsin

Here's to apple orchards, pumpkin patches, seeing your breath on the air, hearing the crisp crunch of fallen leaves under your feet, and of course to glorious color everywhere. Happy harvest, all!

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

"October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter." - Nova Bair

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

"Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night." - Hal Borland

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." - Elizabeth Lawrence

"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
(Author Unknown)

"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

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
(A Children's Song of the 1880s)

"The meadow opened before her like welcoming arms ready to embrace, its colors beginning to alter as autumn waits patiently to paint the landscape with rich hues of yellows and reds. Wildflowers and wheat fields swayed on the horizon, defying the inevitable change as if crying, 'not yet, not yet' but gradually all would bow and sleep; the palette of fall would insure it." - Veronica Randolph Batterson (Precipice)

New Photos and Updates

I've added some new photographs from a recent vacation in California to my Fine Art America and Pixels sites, and will continue to do so as I go through all of them. Below are screenshots of some of the images, while the higher resolution ones can be viewed at www.veronica-batterson.pixels.com.

If you're in the Memphis area, stop by Palladio Interiors where a number of my prints are on display and you'll find all of them for sale. Also, a reminder that if you're looking for a late summer read, my book, Williamsburg Hill is available via Amazon and select bookstores (in paperback and Kindle versions).

Writing updates: the play that I've been working on is about the Suffragist movement in the United States, tentatively titled Silent Sentinels and is a three character piece of work thus far. Since the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment being ratified is next summer, finishing in a timely manner is key.  I've been promised a staged reading of it, so it would be nice to coordinate that around the anniversary.

Also, research on the next book has rooted itself in (where else?) a cemetery.  Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis provided a light bulb moment for me when visiting a few months ago.  I can only add at this point it will center around the Yellow Fever epidemic that hit Memphis in 1878 and Martyrs Park.  Writing will begin once I finish the play.  I shared a story that I was working on some time ago about a Scottish singer finding a long lost love...that book is on the back burner right now.  It's good to have ideas for future projects though, and it will definitely get finished at some point.

A new travel blog post will be coming in the next week or two. Thanks to all who continue to support my work, and don't forget to check out my website at www.veronicabatterson.com.

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Palladio Interiors - Memphis

Palladio Interiors, Memphis 

A quick share that some of my photographs can be seen and are for sale at Palladio Interiors, 2215 Central Ave in Memphis, TN.  Prints are available on canvas, metal, acrylic, or framed. All can be viewed at www.veronica-batterson.pixels.com. As always, thanks!

Updated Website

My website has finally been updated and I'm happy to share the link here. It contains info on all of my work, including my books, art and photographs. Please visit veronicabatterson.com and take a look. I'm pretty pleased with how it looks.