Fall is Everywhere!
Fall is all around us. Wherever we look…wherever we are… fall is everywhere! There are simple pleasures to behold and simple pleasures to bestow. Local artist, Jim Gray, depicts the season beautifully in his painting, ‘Autumn Shadows’.
Pleasures to behold…In the foreground, Mr. Gray delights our senses with the burnt shades of orange, yellow, and red on his canvas. You can almost smell the autumn fields musky, woodsy scent and the sweet, crispness of a breeze rustle through the valley. Suddenly, your eyes are drawn to the mountains’ shadowing hues of purple and blue. My breath is taken away just a bit. My heart yearns to re-visit these mountains…these mountains I call home…these mountains known to millions as The Great Smoky Mountains!
Pleasures to bestow….are gifts from the heart and home. Small pleasures of autumn’s fragrances: the sniff of cinnamony goodness in a hot apple pie cooling or the sweetness of molasses cookies baking or a whiff of hot cocoa on the stove top.
Or the gift of a new day from Our Creator and the chance to see an East Tennessee sunrise from atop Clingmans Dome.
And, the joyful blessings from above watching little children playing outdoors on a fair October day!
The sights, sounds, and taste of fall’s glorious celebration comes in an abundance through God’s love for me and you. I don’t want to miss a minute of it with my family in my lovely East Tennessee home. Wherever we look… wherever we are… fall is everywhere!
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Thanks, Miss Jenny for hosting!
9 Comments
Jenny
I feel like I’ve been awash in Autumn splendors from start to finish!
What a lovely, lovely stop for Fall Break!
I’m enchanted with Jim Grey’s work and with the lovely children swinging in the autumn sunshine!
Just lovely.
Thank you for sharing it Miss Cathy!
Hugs and A+
Theresa
O gosh…this really makes me miss experiencing fall…great post!
Birgit
Lovely pictures!
Judie
Cathy, we have always loved the work of Jim Gray. What a fantastic watercolorist he is!!
anitamombanita
wow! that was a very full and fulfilling post. Definitely got the sense of fall everywhere…and in the most delightful way. Loved the Jim Gray painting.
jen
Newest follower from Alphabe-Thursday. I’m hooked by your profile–so real and someone I’ll be able to relate to.
I just left your neck of the country (MD) on Sunday, and I’m already missing your glorious fall. AZ just isn’t like that. You’re lucky.
I’ll be following your adventures.
Karen S.
Oh yes for sure you have brought to us a very fine autumn indeed! Thanks!
Sue
I think you’ve stirred every one of my senses here.
Great fall post!
=)
Francisca
A lovely celebration of the bounty that is autumn.