Fall All Over

There is more to life 

than increasing its speed.

~ Gandhi

Yes the title of the post has a double meaning ... I fell last week and took a header down a driveway. I'm blaming the whole daylight savings/time change thing (for everything) any chance I get, so let's go with that! It's usually light when I come out of my student's house, and with my arms full of art supplies ... well, you get the idea. Anyway, nothing broken, just a bit bruised so I got lucky! Phew!

So, after two Aleve, a bag of frozen peas on my knees and a little glass ofDon Julio Añjeo I cuddled up, and it felt like fall.

Paradiso, Assisi

I mentioned a few posts ago about looking for signs of fall in Los Angeles, or at least fall colors. On Pinterest I have a board called "Artful Autumn" with various images of paintings and photographs by all sorts of people that speak to me of fall. Sometimes it's just the colors and tones.

Anyway, I decided to go through some of my travel photos and see what I could find, from past trips that I'd taken in the fall (that I hadn't already posted.) Most of the photos are between 2008-2014. 
I threw in a few of my earth toned artworks in the mix as well.

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 

Ojai, California

Happiness is when what you think,

what you say,

and what you do

are in harmony.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 

Ink and conte on paper, 2008

Freedom is not worth having 

if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

~ Gandhi 

Shrewsbury

Lake Como, Italy

Rome, Italy

La Maddelena, Rome

The weak can never forgive.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Shrewsbury

When I admire the wonders of a sunset

or the beauty of the moon,

my soul expands

in the worship of the creator.

~ Gandhi 

Sancta Santorum, Rome

 Ink and gauche on paper, 2008

Ojai, California (2012)

Piemonte, Italy

 Shrewsbury

Rome

Shrewsbury

Assisi, Italy

King Gilette Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains

You must not lose faith in humanity.

Humanity is an ocean;

if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,

the ocean does not become dirty.

~Gandhi

Cat Sanctuary, Rome

Watercolor on Paper, 2013

Lake Casitas Ojai California

This was the post I was planning to put up over the weekend before the attacks in Paris. So many of the Gandhi quotes synchronistically resonate. Along with all of you, I am continuing to keep Paris in my thoughts and prayers, as well as Beirut, Iraq, Syria, Central Africa, those that lost loved ones in the plane crash in Russia, and the 60 million refugees and internally displaced. My dear friend's family also lost a loved one last week, and they are always in my mind and my heart.

Where love is,

God is also.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Blessings and light
Stay safe
Heart open

Cemeteries and Witches ~ October in Millbury, Massachusetts

Millbury Central Cemetery 

I had seen this cemetery in the winter of 2010, and knew that it would be just as beautiful, in Autumn. Here is some fall music, to go with it! A little George Winston Autumn ...

I have merged, like the bird, with the bright air,

And my thought flies to the place by the bo-ree.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

~ Theodore Roethke quoted

in Finding Deep Joy by Robert Ellwood

The fullness of joy 

is to behold God in everything.

~ Julian of Norwich 

quoted in Meditations with Julian of Norwich

by Brendan Doyle

From joy I came,

For joy I live,

and in Thy sacred joy

I shall melt again.

~Paramahansa Yogananda 

Beside the cemetery ...

That evening, on the way to Dawn sister's, I saw the moon reflecting on the lake. We had to drive into a neighborhood and find a spot to photograph through the houses ...

You could just see a just bit of the moon in the water, (see below) by the time we got to it, but what a great view! Might need to paint this! Love the purple and blue sky that also reflects into the water. Fortunately, the owners didn't come out, to see what we were up to. Dawn said they's probably be flattered anyway.

Pumpkin carving with Dawn's family ...

And, Dawn and I getting into the Halloween spirit. It was October 18th, after all!

Blessings and light!