I am reading the fall section in Diane Ackerman’s Cultivating Delight, A Natural History of My Garden, which was published in 2001, and goes through the seasons in her garden. I read a section when the seasons change because she has such a vibrant style and reminds me of all that is magical about reality. Also, I can’t garden like I’d like to, so I let this book give me that sense of delight I no longer cultivate directly. She has a bigger garden than I’d ever have, and is besotted by roses, so it’s nice to have a tour of her garden regularly.

On fall, she says, “We’ve always called the season ‘fall’ from the Old English faellan, to fall down, which leads back through time to the Indo-European phol, to fall. The word hasn’t really changed since the first or our kind needed a name for this seasonal metamorphosis. Then there is that other fall, the one in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve concealed their nakedness with a fig leaf, remember? Leaves have always hidden our awkward secrets.” I love watching the leaves fall, the sudden appearance of all the color the chlorophyll in the leaves had covered. The slant of fall light. The way fall weather and changes make me question, and make peace with, my own awkward secrets.

Ackerman lives in Ithaca, New York, where it gets cooler quicker than here in Memphis, where we can expect summery weather for most of October and maybe all fall, the way weather patterns are changing.

I have painted quite a few paintings about fall over the years, and have put the images in my Redbubble shop. If you’re looking for a unique greeting card or print to send to someone, or buy for yourself, to celebrate the seasonal change, take a look at my shop.

Redbubble prints artists’ images on a lot of different products, but many of my images are only available as cards or prints. I haven’t quite got the hang of sizing photographs so that they can be printed on larger items, but everything in the shop is available as a postcard or a greeting card. And some are available as many more pretty things.

There’s much more to see in my shop. Thanks for your support. Happy Fall!

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