apples to you, nuts to you, spice candles to you, hot sweet cider to you, leafless trees against blue-black skies to you, scampering squirrels and single-minded geese to you, damp churchyard walks to you, frozen morning mist to you, pumpkin ice cream to you, wild rose hips gathered with icy fingers to you, glittering twilight stars to you, redgoldscarletrussetcrimsonorange leaves to you, loud acorns underfoot to you, woodsmoke-scented wool to you, intimations of lives past to you, memories and dreams to you, simple joy and simple sadness of autumn, to you all.

Blessings at Samhain, summer's end...

Peg