“Nature is the art of God.”
  ~~Dante

“Every child is an artist,
the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”
  ~~Pablo Picasso

"I have a fear of things growing on things.
I don't know where it came from.
But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms."
  ~~Lara Jean Chorostecki

"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."
  ~~Faith Baldwin, American Family

A friendly group "mauling" for Eric Ponder...

"My Sport Is Your Sport’s Punishment"

"Good. Better. Best.
Never let it rest, until your good is better and your better is best."

Emma finishing for Tuscola.

"Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands,
come off the whisper of the silk hangers,
the lap of the flat spear leaves."
  ~~Carl Sandburg

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
  ~~Henry Ward Beecher

"October's the month
When the smallest breeze
Gives us a shower
Of autumn leaves.
Bonfires and pumpkins,
Leaves sailing down -
October is red
And golden and brown."
  ~~Can Teach Songs

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
  ~~Elizabeth Lawrence

"The season for enjoying the fullness of life -- partaking of the harvest, 
sharing the harvest with others,
and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth."
   ~~Denis Waitley