Happy Labour Day Lovelies!

"Ah, summer, what power you have

to make us suffer and like it." ~ Russel Baker

I know a lot of people like the fall, but I've never a big fan. Sure the crispness in the air can be invigorating and there was always something nice about buying brand new school supplies, but there is also something distinctly depressing about this time of year. The clear feeling that something is over and not to return until a lot of suffering (ie: winter) has passed. And while we technically have another month of summer left, back to school time makes it fall already. As Sarah Helen Whitman once said this is the time "when summer gathers up her robes of glory and, like a dream, glides away." Hopefully we'll have another Indian summer this year, but with the cool temperatures of the last few days it's clear that something in the air is changing and another summer has all but come and gone. Time sure does fly these days.

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." ~ Wallace Stevens

"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken." ~ Bill Dodds

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school." ~ Albert Einstein

"I am always ready to learn although I do not
always like being taught." ~ Winston Churchill

"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire."
 ~ William Butler Yeats

"It is only here in large portions of Canada that wonderous second wind, the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection, -- the temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost flavoured air: Enough to live -- enough to merely be." ~ Walt Whitman

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~ Albert Camus

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swig of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." ~ John Donne

"Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to Spring." ~ Anonymous

 So, happy Labour Day to all! I hope you're enjoying the last long weekend of the summer. Check back tomorrow for Day Seven of our Seven Days of Giveaways and enter the others if you haven't had a chance to yet. And if you have a sec check out fellow blogger Spanky's reopened Etsy shop, Twitterpated--I'm loving the sparkly brooches she's got for sale (she also has a giveaway going on at her blog). Next week our 400 followers celebration will be over and we'll be back to regularly scheduled programming.