I have been looking for a word to link with November that begins with N and which in someway hints at the autumn splendour that now begins to crumble around me.
Although there are likely to still be individual surprises - a butterfly on Saturday – rain has rendered much of the fallen leaves to pulp and wind destroyed those which had not.
Colours are seeping from the landscape and winter’s dull is settling in.
So i looked in Thesaurus to little avail and last night i turned to the Oxford book of collocations. Autumn – “ last, next, this (coming) early, late, mid, wet, weather, sun, sunlight, sunshine, frost, rain, gale, wind, landscape, sky, colours, leaf, equinox, term, collection, exhibition.”
Although it doesn’t offer this association; for many autumn is seen as melancholic, and for some melancholic is the same as nostalgic.
And nostalgic begins with an N.
But does nostalgia come in colours?
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November is usually a Noble, Nocturnal and Notably Nippy month ...although we are still eating al fresco at the moment here in Civitaquana!
Noble!
That's it - thanks!
Maybe Autumn is especially poignant for those of us who are over 50. I know that I have felt a real nostalgia in the past couple of years -- not ready yet to let go of MY leaves though some have started to blow away as they will. Try as I might to hold on to them, I can't catch them before they fall. You captured a few of them quite nicely in your photos.
Nostalgic -- yes.
Noble -- definitely!
Mx
PS -- [from Wikipedia]
The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.[1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek compounds, consisting of νόστος, nóstos, "returning home", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος, álgos, "pain" or "ache". It was described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy -- also referred to as 'homesickness'.
The colours of nostalgia are the colours of home.
Mx
Very nice Mary, thanks.
Just sepia, I think
Nostalgia - home in sepia then?
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