Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter
Printemps, été, automne, hiver
A Photo A Week – topic: blue sky. 4 for the price of 1, then. Links to more blue skies are here.
Tag: autumn
Merrily, merrily, life is but a dream
This is for The Daily Post, the topic being serene. More serene images can be found here.
Who needs a winter wonder land?
Walking through the golden autumn woods.
This is for Six Word Saturday – more photographic poems with six words can be found here.
Not quite fallen yet
The leaves are still clinging to their branches, they have not fallen yet.
What a (colour) riot!
More photos of fall or falls can be found at the Thursday’s Special photo challenge.
Press them to ripeness
The ripe grapes, soon to be made into wine, embody autumn for me. The first sweet grape must is being sold in open bottles (since the bottles would explode if they were firmely corked), soon to turn cloudy when fermentation sets in. I love it at all the different stages before it is left to mature under the watchful eye of vintners. The German term for harvesting grapes is actually “herbsten” which is related to “Herbst”, meaning autumn or fall.
The title is taken from one of the most famous poems about autumn in German, by Rainer Maria Rilke:
Befiel den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;
gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage,
dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage
die letzte Süße in den schweren Wein.
Command the last fruits to be ripe;
Grant them another two more southern days,
Press them to ripeness, and with power
Drive final sweetness to the heavy grape.
for the A Photo a Week Challenge: Signs of fall
Autumn and metal
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