October mornings & evenings at Red Haw Hill

September turns to October this week and leaves in the south of Iowa, now tinged with color, soon will burst into full flaming splendor.

Here's a slide show of images taken, mostly during October of 2016, on or near Red Haw Hill, after which what now is known as Red Haw State Park, takes its name.

This quote attributed to existentialist author and philosopher Albert Camus has been stuck in my head: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Did he actually write that? As it turns out, he did. Here's a link to a 2015 post from the blog, "Spanish-English Word Connections," that explores the attribution.

And here's the key paragraph: "Eventually, in spite of my skepticism, I did track down the quotation about autumn and spring and found that it’s correctly attributed to Albert Camus. It turned out to be from his 1944 play Le malentendu (The Misunderstanding), but the original is slightly different from the widely quoted version. In the play, the character Martha asks 'Qu’est-ce que l’automne?' ('What is autumn?'). The character Jan replies: 'Un deuxième printemps, où toutes les feuilles sont comme des fleurs.' ('A second spring, when the leaves are like flowers.') The widely quoted version not only gloms the two sentences together but also drops the word comme (like) and the comma before it, thereby turning the original simile into a metaphor."