Ithaca, N.Y. — Zac Peterson took 106 photographs of autumn in Ithaca to help The Ithaca Voice usher in the fall season, which officially began on Tuesday.
We narrowed that list down to 43 and republished them here.
Helping us annotate the images are the words of William Blake, the 18th Century poet and engraver.
“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,”
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.”
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.”
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
“Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load….
