Quiet time

I'm feeling very quiet on the blogging front this week, but this morning I found a quote from an Oliver Sachs piece in the New York Times that I liked - 

There is something of this in the lovely quote from the Quaker Advices and Queries:

 Remember that each one of us is unique, precious, a child of God.

And here, a propos of nothing except the onset of autumn so apparent in this morning's mists and chilly air, is the view at 7.30 a.m. through our kitchen stained glass window into our sitting room: