And Soon the Darkness Long

31 Suggestions to Get You in an Octoberish Mood

Ancient stone coffins at Bakewell Church. Note the drainage holes. Creepy! Photo by the author

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which had drawn…