Hello Autumn.

October reminds me of past autumns and old books and warmth and happiness. Seeing pumpkins, gourds, and Indian corn heaped on doorsteps and lining supermarket entrances is a welcome sight after a long summer. 

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,” Anne Shirley says through L. M. Montgomery’s poetic prose in Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Margaret Mitchell in Gone with the Wind (1936) writes of “still forest paths under frosty autumn stars” and “cool autumn moons.” And scenes of childhood come back when reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Autumn Fires” in A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885).

For this design, I was inspired by literature and styles from the past. I did not reference any specific text or drawings but was influenced by the memory of Victorian illustrations and Arts and Crafts lettering. Many vintage cards have the charming habit of putting a period after whatever greeting is printed, so I added one as well.