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Page Toppers

  • A is for Autumn
  • Adieu to Summer
  • All Fall Down
  • All of Autumn
  • All That's Fall
  • Amazing Autumn Days
  • And Autumn Came
  • And the leaves came tumbling down
  • Another Autumn
  • As Autumn Leaves...
  • As Autumn Leaves turn...
  • At Hay Cutting Time
    (song by Connie Dover)
  • Autumn Angels
  • Autumn at the ____'s House
  • Autumn Awareness
  • Autumn Colors
  • Autumn Days are Here again!
  • Autumn Festival
  • Autumn Glory
  • Autumn in all its Glory
  • Autumn Leaves
  • Autumn Leaves Are Falling Down
  • Autumn on My Mind
  • Autumn Potpourri (misc photos)
  • Autumn Splendor
  • Autumn Time
  • Autumn Treasures
  • Autumn's all around us
  • Autumn's Glory
  • Autumn's Here
  • Autumn's in the Air
  • Autumn's Palette
  • Awesome Autumn
  • Baskets of Fun
  • The Beauty of Fall
  • Bonfires of Autumn!
  • Bushels of Fun
  • Buried Treasures
    (kids under leaves or hay)
  • Celebrate Fall
  • Celebrating Fall
  • Changing Leaves
  • Changing Seasons
  • Chasing the Winds of Fall
  • Chillin' in Autumn
  • Colorful Days of Autumn
  • Color Me Autumn
  • Color My World Happy
  • Colors of Autumn
  • Colors of Fall
  • The Cool, Crisp Days of Fall
  • Cozy Cuddle Days of Fall
  • Crazy Days of Autumn
  • Crisp Autumn Nights
  • Crisp Fall Air
  • Crisp, Cool Autumn
  • Crisp, Cool Days
  • Crunchy Leaves
  • Cuddle Up On an Autumn Night
  • Dancing leaves...falling down on me
  • Don't Leaf Me!
  • Each falling leaf brings us closer to winter
  • The End of Summer
    (song by Dar Williams)
  • Fabulous Fall
  • Fall announces itself very bold,
    with its leaves of red and gold
  • Fall Colors
  • Fall colors are so bold
  • Fall Fun
  • Fall, Falling, Fallen Leaves
  • Fall Family Fun
  • Fall Festival
  • Fall Festival of Colors
  • Fall Fiesta
  • Fall Foliage
  • Fall In (your state)
  • Fall Into Autumn
  • Fall is Here!
  • Fall Leaves Me Happy
  • Fall Memories
  • Fall ushers in the winter fun
  • Fall With Friends
  • Falling for you
  • FALLING in Love Again
  • Falling into Fun
  • Falling Leaves
  • Fall's Coloring Book
  • Farewell Green Leaves
    (song by Steve Ashley)
  • A Festival of Fall Colors
  • Finally Fall
  • First Day of Autumn
    (song by Anne Hills)
  • First Days of Fall
    (song by Tim O'Brien)
  • For Goodness Sake, Grab a Rake!
  • Frolic in the Fall Leaves
  • Glorious Days of Autumn
  • Glorious Golden Leaves
  • Golden Days
  • Golden Hues
  • Golden Memories
  • Happy Fall, Y'all
  • Harvest Home
  • Have a good Fall, Y'all!
  • Hello Fall!
  • Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Rake we Go!
  • I'm FALLING in Love
  • Indian Summer
  • It "Leaves" you Breathless
  • It's an Autumn-Magic Day
  • It's Fall Y'all
  • Jump into Fall
  • Jumping in the leaves
  • Kaleidoscope of Colors
  • Lazy Autumn Days
  • Leaf it to me
  • Let's run and play together
    And enjoy the autumn weather.
  • Over Summer and Into Fall
  • Leaf it up to Me
  • LEAF me Alone!
  • Leaf your worries behind
  • Leave well enough alone
  • Leaves Come Tumbling Down
  • Leaves Fall
    (song by Chris Thile)
  • Leaves of Time
  • Love those Leaves
  • Lovely leaves
  • Natures at it's Best
  • October Fest
  • October Fun
  • Oh, Those Autumn Colors!
  • Orange, Brown, Red And Gold
  • Orange, yellow, green, red
    another leaf hit my head!
  • Phenomenal Fall
  • Pieces of Autumn
  • Piles of Autumn Smiles!
  • Piles of Leaves - Piles of Smiles
  • Piling up the Memories
  • Playing in the Leaves
  • Rainbow Of Autumn Colors
  • Rake, Dump and Jump!
  • Red and Gold and Orange, Oh, My
  • Red and green, gold and brown,
    Autumn leaves are on the ground.
  • A Riot of Color
  • Rolling in the leaves
  • Scattered Leaves
  • The season has changed,
    Fall now reins
  • Seasons change and so did you
  • The Seasons of My Life
  • Seeing Red
  • September Leaves
  • September Secret
  • September Splendor
  • A September to Remember
  • Shades of Autumn
  • Summer "Falls" into Autumn
  • Sweatshirt Season
  • Sweet September
  • Taking a Fall
  • Thirty Days Hath September
  • Time for Fall Fun
  • Turning over a New Leaf
  • Unbe-leaf-able
  • We Rake, We Pile...WE JUMP!
  • When Autumn Leaves
  • When Autumn leaves Fall
  • When Fall Comes to New England
    (song by Cheryl Wheeler)
  • When the First Leaves Fall
    (song by Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen)
  • When the Maples Turn
    (song by Andrew McKnight)
  • Whispers of Summer
    (song by Elias Carthy)
  • Who you Gonna Call...Leaf Busters!
  • You COLOR my World

(Many of these page toppers were compiled by Jean Gifford. They are for free distribution only.)

Harvest Page Toppers

  • Apple Days are Delicious
  • The Apple Dumplin' Gang
  • Apple of My Eye
  • Autumn Harvest
  • Autumn is Pumpkins and Piles of Leaves
  • Bushel Basket Harvest
  • Bushel of Blessing
  • Five little pumpkins
    Sitting on a fence
  • Frost on the Pumpkins
  • The Great Pumpkin Caper
  • The Great Pumpkin Venture
  • Harvest Happenings
  • Harvest Moon
  • Harvest of Happiness
  • A Harvest of Memories
  • Harvest Time
  • "Hay" Fever
  • Hayrides and Pumpkin Pie
  • Nature's Bounty
  • Our basket overflows with Autumn Memories
  • The Perfect Pumpkin
  • The Pick of the Patch
  • Pickin' Pumpkins
  • Preparing for hibernation
  • Preserving our Harvest
  • Pumpkin Parade
  • Pumpkin Patch
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Pumpkins are gourdeous.
  • Reap the Harvest
  • Shine on Harvest Moon
  • We're 'Haying' a Good Time

Quotes

Page Ideas

Autumn ABC's

(Compiled by Denny Davis)

A - abundance, acorns, amazing, apple cider, apples, asters, Autumn, awesome
B - back to school, baling hay, baskets, bird feeders, beautiful, birch trees, blessings, bonfires, brown, burning leaves
C - canning, chilly, chrysanthemum, color, colors of Fall, cool, corn stalks, cornucopia, crickets, crisp, crunchy leaves
D - dazzling display of color, deer hunting, delightful weather, dove hunting, down come the leaves, duck hunting
E - enjoyment, especially _____, everybody loves Autumn, excellent weather, extraordinary colors
F - Fabulous Fall, fairs, Fall foliage, Fall, falling leaves, festivals, first hard freeze, flocks of geese, fog, football, frolic, frost, fun
G - gladiolus, glorious color, gold, goodbye to summer, Grandparent's Day
H - Halloween, harvest moon, harvest, hay, hay rides, hickory nuts, Homecoming, hunting season
I - I love Autumn, impressive colors, Indian Summer
J - Jack-o-Lantern, joyous times, jumping in leaves, just perfect ____
K - kaleidoscope of color, kids ______, kind of ____
L - Labor Day, laughter, leaves, lovely colors, lovely landscape
M - magical memories, Maple leaves, marvelous colors, memories, migrating birds, milkweed, mist, multi-colored leaves
N - nature at her best, nature's bounty, new school year, November
O - Oak leaves, October, Octoberfest, orange, outdoor fun, outstanding color
P - parades, perfect weather, pheasant hunting, photo opportunities, picking pumpkins, piles of leaves, pine comes, preserving, pumpkin patch, pumpkin pie
Q - quail hunting, Quaking Aspens, quality time, quite _____, quotes
R - rabbit hunting, rain, raking leaves, reaping what you sowed, red, remarkable colors, roasting hot dogs, Rosh Hashanah, russet leaves, rustling leaves
S - scarecrow, scarlet leaves, school, sensational scenery, September, state fair, shucking corn
T - terrific _____, Thanksgiving, toasting marshmallows, tumbling in the leaves, turkey, turning leaves
U - unbelievable colors, unforgettable color, unmistakably autumn
V - 'V' formation (migrating geese), variety of color, very _____, Veterans Day, vibrant colors, vision of loveliness
W - walking in fallen leaves, windy, wonderful weather
X - relaXation, eXcellent ____, eXceptional ____, eXtraordinary _____
Y - yard work, yearly ____, yellow, Yom Kippur , youngsters at play
Z - zesty, zillions of leaves, zippy

(If your fall activities center around Halloween or Thanksgiving look in those files for ideas.)

Leaves

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

Raking Leaves

I rake the leaves
When they fall down,
In a great big pile.
And when there are
Enough of them,
I jump on them awhile.

Autumn Leaves

Leaves in the autumn come tumbling down,
Scarlet and yellow, russet and brown,
Leaves in the garden are swept in a heap,
Trees are undressing ready for sleep.

Autumn Leaves

Leaves are floating softly down;
Some are red and some are brown.
The wind goes swish through the air;
When you look back, there are no leaves there.

Wind Has Shaken Autumn Down

(Tony Johnston)

Wind has shaken autumn down,
left it sprawling on the ground,
shawling all in gold below,

waiting -

for
the
hush

of snow.

Walking through the autumn leaves
Scattered on the ground
Seeing the kaleidoscope
Of colors all around

Listening to the trees' song
As the wind comes rustling through...
May autumn's lovely magic
Bring happiness to you.

Autumn Leaves

Down
down
down

Red
yellow
brown

Autumn leaves
tumble down

Swoop,
Scoop,

Pile them up
Into a pile and

jump
jump
JUMP!

Bed of Leaves

(Aileen Fisher)

The nicest bed I know
Isn't a bed of soft white snow.
Isn't a bed of cool green grass
After the noisy mowers pass.
Isn't a bed of yellow hay
Making me itch for half a day
But autumn leaves in a pile that high,
Deep and smelling like fall and dry.
That's the bed where I like to lie
And watch the flutters of Fall go by.

An Autumn Day

(Carmen Lagos Signes)

Pumpkins in the cornfields,
Gold among the brown,
Leaves of rust and scarlet
Trembling slowly down;
Birds that travel southward,
Lovely time to play;
Nothing is as pleasant
As an autumn day!

Autumn is the Time

Vibrant colors,
rustling winds,
amber leaves swept
down from trees,
Long brisk walks,
fireside talk...
Autumn is
a time for these.

Autumn

Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come over the meadow
with me and play.
Put on your dresses
of scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the nights grow cold.

Autumn

(Gladys Harp)

I am rich today with autumn's gold,
All that my covetous hands can hold;
Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod,
A goldfinch on a milkweed pod,
Huge golden pumpkins in the field
With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield,
Golden apples heavy on the trees
Rivaling those of Hesperides,
Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread
Over all like butter on warm bread;
And the harvest moon will this night unfold
The streams running full of molten gold.
Oh, who could find a dearth of bliss
With autumn glory such as this!

Autumn Splendor

(Elise Natalie Brady)

There's a little twinge of sadness
When Summer disappears,
But Autumn brings new gladness
And joys this time of year.

Leaves Are Falling

Leaves are falling all around-
Red, yellow, orange and brown.
Twirling, swirling to the ground-
Look how many leaves I've found

Autumn Walk

(Rea Williams)

As I tramp the woods this autumn day
I wonder about others who have passed this way,
Did they look with awe at the beauty I behold,
Or did they only curse the wind and cold?

Did they marvel at the stone draped in moss so gray,
Or was it only a rock that barred their way?
Did their heart leap for joy at that deer on the run,
Or only wish they had brought their gun?

Did they hear the singing of the creek under ice,
Or the hurry scurry of tiny field mice?
Were they stopped in their tracks by the bit of blue
I saw peeping through trees of such marvelous hue?
Did they hear the chatter of the squirrel in the tree
Or the raucous sound of the bluejay's scree?

Many men must have trod this autumn path,
Perhaps in joy or perchance in wrath.
Surely the Red Man as he walked they land
Feeling the Great Spirit so near at hand,
Must've truly felt the earth was blessed
Knowing that now it was all at rest
And so understanding, that again in the spring,
Once more the world, with life, would sing.

So I too, as I walk this trail
To see the cardinal and bright-eyed quail,
Feel that I am greatly blessed-
For here my restless spirit finds rest.

The Milkweed

(Cecil Cavendish)

The milkweed pods are breaking,
And the bits of silken down
Float off upon the autumn breeze
Across the meadows brown.

The Mist and All

(Dixie Willson)

I like the fall,
The mist and all.
I like the night owl's
Lonely call -
And wailing sound
Of wind around.

I like the gray
November day,
And bare, dead boughs
That coldly sway
Against my pane.
I like the rain.

I like to sit
And laugh at it -
And tend
My cozy fire a bit.
I like the fall -
The mist and all. -

Autumn

(Tania Kanae)

I would have to say that
It's my favorite time of year.
The days becoming cooler now,
Fall is finally here.

The leaves are gently falling
And turning awesome shades.
Look around and see the beauty,
That God alone has made.

If you take the time to listen,
You'll hear their laughter ring.
The kid's are rolling in the leaves.
What a happy sound it brings.

This time of year brings thoughtfulness,
On which we can reflect
And time to spend with those we love.
A time to reconnect.

Hold your family close to you,
Autumn's finally here.
So much to be thankful for.
It's my favorite time of year.

September

(Helen Hunt Jackson)

The goldenrod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.

The gentian's bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
It's hidden silk has spun.

The sedges flaunt their harvest
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.

From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes' sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.

By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer's best of weather,
and autumn's best of cheer.

September

(Brierly Ashour)

When the goldenrod is yellow,
And leaves are turning brown -
Reluctantly the summer goes
In a cloud of thistledown.

When squirrels are harvesting
And birds in flight appear -
By these autumn signs we know
September days are here.

October

(Georgia B. Adams)

This month the trees begin to make
Their autumn alterations;
October brings the turning leaf
In flaming variations!

Triumphant beauty clothes the hills;
The mountains are ablaze!
There's splendor everywhere to see
These gold autumnal days!

Then one day soon the whistling winds
Will hustle-bustle by,
Sending leaves a-sprawling with
A wistful, wind-swept sigh!

October

(Winifred C. Marshall)

October is a gypsy queen
In dress of red and gold.
She sleeps beneath the silver moon
When nights are crisp and cold.

The meadows flame with color now,
which once were cool and green.
Wild asters and the goldenrod
Bow low to greet their queen.

When she is tripping through the wood
With song so clear and sweet,
The autumn leaves come sifting down
And rustle 'neath her feet.

October Leaves

October leaves are lovely
They rustle when I run
Sometimes I make a heap
And jump in them for fun!

Autumn leaves float quietly down
And form a carpet on the ground
But when those leaves are stepped upon
Listen for the crackling sound!

When you see leaves in the fields,
Gold and glowing in the sun,
It's time to say goodbye to summer
And hello to autumn fun.

October

October's the month
When the smallest breeze
Gives us a shower
Of autumn leaves

Bonfires and pumpkins,
Leaves sailing down -
October is red
And golden and brown.

November

Autumn days are almost gone
Frost is sparkling on the lawn
Windows winking cheerful lights
Warm the cold November nights

The Scarecrow

The farmer made a scarecrow
And stuffed it full of straw.
He put it in the cornfield,
but the crows laughed, "Haw-caw."

One crow sat on Scarecrow's hat.
He was not scared at all.
That scarecrow did not scare
A single crow away all fall!

Apples in Autumn

It's hard to eat apples,
Without my front teeth,
But apples in autumn
Are really a treat.

The apples are squooshy
Down under my feet,
But those from the tree
Are still crunchy and sweet!

Come Join Us For a Hayride

(Nita Cain)

The wagon waiting by the barn
Is filled with new-mown hay,
So come and join us for a ride
At eventide today.

The harvest moon will lead us
Down the shadowed winding lane;
And as we cuddle close, we'll sing,
An old time refrain.

The chilly breeze at dusk will bring
The scent of ripened wheat.
What other scent has nature made
More delicately sweet!

Beyond the cornstalks piled high
Like wigwams, we will pass
And gather golden pumpkins from the
Frosty meadow grass.

Then dreaming solitary dreams
Of other autumns past
When we were young, we'll reminisce
And head back home at last.

There'll be cider, hot and steamy,
So please say that you will stay,
And come and join us for a ride
At eventide today.