A melancholy time! So charming to the eye! Your beauty in its parting pleases me - I love the lavish withering of nature, The gold and scarlet raiment of the woods, The crisp wind rustling o'er their threshold, The sky engulfed by tides of rippled gloom, The sun's scarce rays, approaching frosts, And gray-haired winter threatening from afar. Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) Shot today
