While people around the world are preparing for Halloween, we're preparing for All Saints' Day.
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the church, whether they are known or unknown.
From the 4th century, feasts commemorating all Christian martyrs were held in various places, on various dates near Easter and Pentecost. In the 9th century, some churches in the British Isles began holding the commemoration of all saints on 1 November, and in the 9th century this was extended to the whole Catholic church by Pope Gregory IV.
In Western Christianity, it is still celebrated on 1 November by the Roman Catholic Church as well as many Protestant churches, as the Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions. source
This is a tradition that is kept alive for God knows how long in various countries in Europe as far as I know and according to Wikipedia, in the Philippines and Latin America as well.
On the 1st day of November we go to the cemetery to remember those who are no longer with us. We bring flowers, mostly chrysanthemums, we light a candle and say a prayer.
This is the time of the year for flower vendors, to make some profit. In Transylvania there are Hungarians (Catholics and Reformed Christians) celebrating All Saints' Day in the 1st of November and Romanian Orthodox a week later. This means farmers markets are full of flowers for approximately 2 weeks. Don't ask me why there's a week delay between the two events, it's been like that for ages and it's the same with Easter as well.
I took this photo last week, when I went to buy some flowers. It's a pure joy to look at those beautiful flowers and I regret I'm not able to buy them all. So when I saw this beauty, I thought I'd try to take a nice photo. The vendor could not see me as these were on the table and tall enough to cover him.
This was the other one I was targeting, although the color I would have liked was yellow. Yellow and white are beautiful, but could not take a decent photo due to lack of space and too many people.
This is the time of the year in which chrysanthemums are everywhere, so you have to make sure to enjoy them. I've been capturing them every single time I have seen some nice ones.
Tomorrow is All Saints' Day so I'm hoping to take some photos of yellow chrysanthemums, although it will not be easy.
Apart from chrysanthemums, you can still find interesting things created by mother nature. This is a bud that looked interesting because of the color. I adore red leaves and buds and could not leave without taking a photo.
These are the berries the ivy is growing. I see them every year and on a macro photo these look like grapes, but the berries are small.
This photo is not as spectacular as the flowers, but I love it still. This is the dandelion bud and I was surprised to see it in October. Dandelions usually flower during spring, but who knows.
There was a dandelion open next to this bud but the photos I took are not of quality, so I can't post them.
And I could not finish this post, without a proper autumn photo, so here is one with these beautiful orange leaves. The photo is not edited. Unfortunately these leaves will be on the ground soon.
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