Fall is in the air!!! Beautiful today. Clear blue sky. Crispness outside this morning. Leaves are beginning to change. This is truly my favorite time of the year. I love the quiet of snow, but don't see much of that in the South. My hummingbirds are not feeding any longer. I suspect they have started the flight to Central America. I wonder if the little hummer we saved is still alive? First day of October...where has the year gone?

Met another walking goal yesterday - 75 feet without stopping to rest. Five step ups also. New goal - 100 feet.
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"The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. -Blaise Pascal

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. -Taisen Deshimaru

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Time is too slow for those who wait

too swift for those who fear

too long for those who grieve,

too short for those who rejoice,

but for those who love,

time is eternity.

Hours fly,

flowers die,

new days,

new ways pass by,

Love stays. -

Henry Van Dyke, Katrina's Sun Dial
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October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came—

The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,

And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weatherled the dancing,

Professor Wind the band.-

George Cooper, “October's Party”