SPLINTERS FOR OCTOBER 2024

Autumn is officially begun. What stands out most for you as representing Autumn?
1. Is it the changing color of the leaves and the trees’ limbs standing bare to face the coming cold of Winter?
2. Is it the temperature change that brings out your heavier clothes?
3. A memory from youth that you associate with this time?
.Halloween closes the month of October. This holiday has religious origins (Hallowed Eve) which are both Christian and not.
1. Have you a memory to share about this day?
2. Do you have plans or a wish (wishes) for how this year’s day will present itself?
More than one post this month focuses on one or another of the the arts. Do you think October is a month that births artistic creation?
1. If yes (or no), why?
2. Do you know of a work of art which expresses the sense of October (or Autumn) or one one which does so for you? Tell us about it.