HELLO AUTUMN! I steal the leaves (Original Atumn seasonal song)+ Autumn Fairy photoshoot + Mabon Blessing

Hello Autumn... Sharing my original (and maybe most popular song "I steal the leaves") A riddle to understand the duality of every thing in nature flowing and trapping you in its eternal paradox. I share this song to celebrate and welcome the new season. Yesterday I celebrated the Equinnox doing an acoustic concert in the woods... I will cover that in a forthcoming post as soon as I can review the pictures and hopefully video footage. But as I made a little fantasy fairy ritual with this song and as the new season has started felt like sharing this song of mine (probably one of my most known) as well as my impersonation of Autumn. All photos from last fall now for the first time compiled together. Emperor Moth wings were made by my friends and designers from El Costurero Real. Gown and crown handmade by myself.

You can also play this song from this window on Soundcloud.

You can also listen to it from my Choon site

• https://choon.co/tracks/136qqi3p04/i-steal-the-leaves/

Mabon Blessings

Mabon (or second Harvest) is a time to celebrate Mother Nature for all it has provided... It is also the Autumn Equinnox. Day and Night the same length now on days will turn shorter and darker as we move into bare and cold winter. Autumn is such a romantic season, the colours, the smells, the damp forest full of mushrooms... Yesterday I celebrated it welcoming the Fall giving an outdoors concert in the woods, in Orgi Forest (Navarre). And I sang of course this song "I steal the leaves" as it is in fact one of my oldest but most popular, but just right and seasonal for the time of the year we are entering. As I sang this song I wore this dress I'm sharing in the pictures with wings made by my friends from
El Costurero Real(a fantasy clothing brand) and a gown and crown made by myself.

What do you like best of Autumn? Let me know! :)

^{Above me with self-made DIY crown made with foraged goods (pines, granches and dried fungi) + upcycled materials}

Wether It's Halloween, the colors, the leaves, pumpkin spice, the romantic foggy mornings, the droplets on cobwebs. Autumn is the best season to enjoy a cup of tea (or soup) while you watch the gentle rain. It's a moody and mystical one and I find it utterly romantic. What do you love best about Autumn?
I know the days are turning shorter now but that also call for introspection and more time indoors usually increases my productivity and tend to be the time of the year I paint and draw more...
Countless cups of tea and coffee by an artist messy desktop. :)

Tell me... what's your favourite thing about Autumn?

^{Above, me holding a chestut leave}

I was born in an island with no marked seasons...

I grew up in the Canary Islands. There we do not have a marked change of seasons... as Temperature is mild and warm the entire year and most forests are evergreen. Still I wrote this song while living there being Autumn something I could only see in movies and in books... but when I moved to the Spanish mainland and beheld the turning of the colours for the first time I was mesmerized. It was magical... And though I will certainly miss Summer bathing in ponds and creeks... but when the ferns turn golden and the trees turn red, I also shift colours. I do wear green in Summer and slowly turn into ochres and browns in Autumn...

^{Above: Emperor Moth Wings designed by my friends"El Costurero Real". Gown and crown made by myself.}

A song about duality and contradictions, but also about balance

I steal the leaves
but I'll bring them back in Spring

^{Above, filming some Autumn Scenes during a misty foggy day. Hopefully revamping this song with a video during this Fall}

A riddle to understand the duality of every thing in nature flowing and trapping you in its eternal paradox. Lights and shades alone are uneven; they need to intermingle to bring the balance. This was the first song I ever put on the internet back in 2002. It gave name to my first demo and was included in my first album Ancient Shadows.
The song itself has had many recordings and different moods, and in fact I'm sharing here an extensive photoshoot from last Fall with footage and stills that will be probably be included in a video for a new version of it. (There have been several videos for this song as well). But to say Hello Autumn I share the song as it was released and pictures I made all throughout last Autumn. Waiting for the leaves to shift colours now to make more and finish filming.
I will try to re-record this version or maybe share a live version of it once the autumn colours are at its peak.

I steal the leaves (Poem / Lyrics)

I steal the leaves
But I'll bring them back in spring
I bring the daylight with my spells
That light will fade where my shadow dwells
My voice arises in this song
that brings a silence deeper than a tomb
And I could grant any wish you dream
for all the promises I shall not keep
this way we're linked in each other's chains
and thus the cycle runs again
I am the chaos that brings the order back
Rush every second and then stop the time
As dead and breathless as any newborn life
Can be both shapeless or graceful like swans are
I... I... I steal the leaves
But I'll bring them back in spring
And I could grant any wish you dream
For all the promises I shall not keep
This way we're linked in each other's chains
And thus the cycle runs again
I'm the open window. I am the closed door
When I say maybe. I state not anymore I am your courage/ I am your inner doubt
When I push forward I make you step back
I... I... steal the leaves
But I'll bring them back in spring
I steal the leaves

Whats's your favourite season?

I cannot really chose one season over another, I celebrate each one of them, the blooms in Spring, the green in Summer, the Fall in Autumn, the snow in Winter.
So I hope you enjoyed your Summer... as I say in my Summer song "Grow"

As seasons flow
once more it all turns bare and cold
but save green in your heart

The Seasons project

During the years I've inspired many songs in the seasons... but there are some songs specifically made as seasonal. Most of them have their own videos and will be eventually included in a a seasonal compilation.

I steal the Leaves (Autumn) is part of a "Seasons" project along with Grow (Summer), Northern Lights (Winter) and The waking of Spring(Spring) and "Northern Lights"

Listen to other songs in "Seasons"

Listen to other songs in "Seasons"

• Northern Lights
  https://steemit.com/music/@yidneth/original-song-and-illustration-i-dream-of-auroras-northern-lights

• The Waking of Spring
  https://steemit.com/music/@yidneth/happy-ostara-and-welcome-of-spring-my-song-the-waking-of-the-spring

• Grow
  https://steemit.com/dsound/@yidneth/20180711t173911349z-priscilla-hernandez-grow

Priscilla Hernandez
singer-songwriter & illustrator
http://yidneth.com

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