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Happy Halloween!

10/31/2021

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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."

(first paragraph of the book The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson)

"Voices fade, but echoes linger..."

10/30/2021

"Abandoned" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"Abandoned houses seldom turn out to be as empty as they appear. Voices fade, but echoes linger, intimately, sinking from room to room. And sometimes figures emerge from those shadows, if only in dreams. What could be more profoundly idiosyncratic than our nightmares? Always, there has been something personal about ghost stories. How surprising is it that so many concern writers in torment?" ~Robert Dunbar

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ~Humbert Wolfe

10/29/2021

"An Eerie Evening Walk" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien

10/28/2021

"The Last of the Leaves" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

October draws to a close...

10/27/2021

"The Last of October" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”

~Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

10/26/2021

"Walking in the Autumn Woods" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." ~Virginia Woolfe

10/25/2021

"A Time for Reflection" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.” ~Anonymous

10/24/2021

"Sometimes it Snows in October" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him." ~Hal Borland

10/23/2021

"At MacKenzie Pond" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

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

10/22/2021

"Fall's Last Flowers" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)