Welcome, Fall Equinox

I'm still in a Summer mood and I can't shake the feeling.  Maybe it's because I didn't take my usual end-of-summer vacation this year.  Anyway, this is a problem, because the Fall is upon us, and Fall is the most beautiful season in New England.  This blog post is a photographic attempt to force me into a Fall mood.  If this doesn't work, I'll just need to take a long hike somewhere with colorful leaves.

(from photonix's flickr photostream)

Today is also, coincidentally, the Fall Equinox.  The night and the day are the same length now.  

(pumpkins from marthastewart.com)

There is music in the meadows, in the air --

  Autumn is here;

Skies are gray, but hearts are mellow,

Leaves are crimson, brown and yellow;

  Pines are soughing, birches stir,

And the Gipsy trail is fresh beneath the fir.

There is rhythm in the woods, and in the fields,

  Nature yields:

And the harvest voices crying,

Blend with Autumn zephyrs sighing;

  Tone and color, frost and fire,

Wings the nocturne Nature plays upon her lyre.

        -- William Stanley Braithwaite, "A Lyric of Autumn"

(from Susan Nye's blog)

Here is Norway in the Fall:

(from about.com)

The look of Norway in the Fall is rather different than New England, but it is still beautiful.  I miss Norway.

While looking at pictures of Norway, I also came across this one.  More wintery than Fall, but man do I want to climb that mountain in the background.  I want to climb the icy ridge with crampons on my boots.

(from this Tromsø tourism website)

Back to Fall photos.  I like this one because it looks magical:

(from Yamata Orochi's deviant art page)

I think one of the keys to getting into the Fall mood is to embrace the colder temperatures.  I am still acclimated for Summer.  Once I remember how to love the cold, perhaps then I will be in a Fall mood.

(from esywlkr's flickr photostream)

Happy Fall.