october, n.Definitions

October is a favorite color.

October is a month that provides a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives.

October is a month of softened light, a veiling haze, and a calm repose.

October is a mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.

October is a time of brooding calm, of dreamy quiet, of golden glow in the day that fade into purple mists.

October is a feast to the eye as the woods and groves give back the light they have been absorbing from the sun all summer.

October is a month of mugs of cider simmered slow, apples sputtered in a row, and baskets of nuts from brown October's wood.

October is a month where summer fades and passes, when we will smell smoke and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.