Oktober, ich habe dich liebe!

oh October. you are my favorite.

The sun was shining warm as the brisk breeze of October air made us bury our noses deeper into our scarves. We spent the perfect, fall Sunday afternoon exploring the gardens and grounds of Palais Schönbrunn, changing our daily midday rosary walk scenery from the streets of the second district to the walking paths of previous Kaisers.

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

-William Cullen Bryant 

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Frau Professor Dmytrenko with her new German pupil

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

-John Donne

writing everything down--very important in learning a new language!

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

-Emily Bronte

"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."

-Mary Ann Evans (aka George Eliot)