Life at a Cape Cod B&B: September 2020

"Autumn stomps around outside the house like an annoying little sister, tapping on all the shutters, kicking up the piles of leaves you rake, pretending to howl like a wolf." ― Karen Finneyfrock

'Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning "fall" or "autumn". It was the 81st most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2009. It was the 80th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2008.

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Bronte

Until about 1500, autumn was just called “harvest.” The full moon closest to the autumn equinox is known as a harvest moon. Before cities electrified, the bright night of the harvest moon was essential for farmers harvesting their late-year crops.

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting,

and autumn a mosaic of them all." - Stanley Horowitz

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be
the magic hour." - Victoria Erickson

One drifting yellow leaf on a windowsill can be a city dweller’s fall, pungent and

melancholy as any hillside in New England. --E. B. White

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew
life was a gift.” - Dodinsky

Each fall, the black-capped chickadee’s tiny hippocampus enlarges by 30%, which enables it to remember where it collected seeds in different spots in trees and on the ground.

"How beautiful the leaves grow old.
How full of light and color are their last days.”

John Burroughs

The term “equinox” is from the Latin meaning “equal night.”

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—

that makes life and nature harmonize." - George Eliot

According to Greek legend, autumn begins when Persephone returns to Hades in the underworld. Heartbroken, her mother, the goddess of grain and harvest, allows the crops on Earth to die until her daughter returns in the spring.

"Autumn . . . the year's last, loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than
a summer’s wave goodbye."

-Unknown

Autumn babies, or those born between September and November, are more likely to

live to 100 than those who were born in other times of the year.

"Delicious Autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive Autumns." - George Eliot

According to superstition, catching leaves in autumn
brings good luck. Every leaf means a lucky month next year.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a survey of the four seasons, summer rates high as 25% of Americans look forward to the warmer weather. Fall is the favorite season of the nation, with 29% responding that they prefer an autumnal climate. A winter chill is only preferred by 7% of us.