Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well.

Consider this an autumn edition. I spent much of the week collecting pictures of fall colors for a display project. Many of them were absolutely beautiful, so I decided to share the top ten with you.

Mixed in with these pictures is the poem “To Autumn” by William Blake

Photo by Dan Taylor

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit

Photo by marufish

Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,

Photo by Benjamin Esham

And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

Photo by Malcolm Browne

“The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;

Photo by Damien Dempsey

Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,

Photo by Gerald Brazell

Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.

Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The spirits of the air live in the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round

Photo by Tero Toivanen

The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat

Photo by Ruthanne Reid

Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.

Photo by Crystal