Annnnndddd a little more fall decorating...

@helenS You don't like fall?

@MeowsoliniReturns I reaally prefer spring…

@helenS Ohhh I see.

@MeowsoliniReturns Spring is the [i]beginning[/i] of something, whereas fall is the end...

@helenS In the Jewish calendar the new year begins in autumn, which I really love. It is refreshing and invigorating when the season changes and the air starts to cool. Plus the world is transformed with color and beauty as the leaves change. So perhaps it depends on how one defines end and beginning.

@Harmonium1923 What you said sounds very poetic, but to me, the new year starts in spring, during the snow thaw. When the water is running down the icicles that hang down from the roof of my house, and the first new flowers bloom in spring, with their blossoms coming through the snow cover. When there's new life arising through the shroud of snow.

@helenS Very poetic, Helen

@ArtieKat Thank you 🌷🌷🌷

@ArtieKat Very difficult to write poetry in a foreign language.
Technical reports are easily done, but poetry - poetry contains the [u]spirit[/u] of a language.

@helenS Related question: is there such a thing as poetry in translation?

@helenS You are too modest - you write excellent colloquial English which indicates a [i]feel [/i]for the language

@Harmonium1923 Shakespeare's sonnets have been translated into German and French many times, and I believe, I feel, I think the translations retained a lot of their original beauty.
Shakespeare's famous sonnet #66 ("Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry") has been translated into German at least 150 times. (!)

@ArtieKat You are a [u]very[/u] kind man. Usually I speak like Mr. Spock 😐

@helenS Spock in disguise! 😂

@ArtieKat There's something wrong with his ears 😏