Ole Farm House

A beuatiful old farm house left to fade away like another season that slips by on us. I captured this beauty and the awesome Fall colors just off of... more

by Darren Fisher

Title

Ole Farm House

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

Description

A beuatiful old farm house left to fade away like another season that slips by on us. I captured this beauty and the awesome Fall colors just off of the Blue Ridge Parkway one day. It's amazing the things you can see just off the main roads. I have used digital effects and textures to create a painterly look on this piece.
The word autumn comes from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year.[10] It was borrowed by the neighbouring Romans, and became the Latin word autumnus.[11] After the Roman era the word continued to be used as the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French) or autumpne in Middle English,[12] and was later normalised to the original Latin. In the Medieval period there are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but by the 16th century it was in common use.
Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day (cf. Dutch herfst, German Herbst and Scots hairst). However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns, the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.[13][14]

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fi�ll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".

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September 28th, 2015