October Fire

Then came October, full of merry glee..............Spenser

The eight month of the old Roman year.

By the Slavs this is called 'Yellow month', from the fading of the leaf, to the Anglo Saxons, it was known as Winter fylleth, because at this moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin.Childhood remembrance...................picking Hazel Nuts along the lane on a brisk October afternoon in Devon.
Especially for Heidi in Amersfoort - colorful toadstools hidden in the woods.
My glorious beans now at their most brilliant on the front porch.

"That Autumn eve was stilled.
A last remains of sunset dimly burned
o'er the far forests - like a torch-flame turned
by the wind back upon it's bearer's hand
in one long flare of crimson; as a brand.
The wood beneath lay black."
............Robert Browning