“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word, to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.” ~ William Henry Channing

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Autumn blows in

Funny, isn't it, how the trees shed their clothing just as we start to bundle up?


Yesterday saw a brief but intense windstorm that whipped many of the remaining golden poplar leaves off the branches above us and sent them soaring far across the pasture.


Fall is an awfully good name.








1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Robin, my dear sister. Your blog has brightened my day. One fall when the girls were very young, maybe 2 or 3 they were crying, (make that screaming) in the car on the way home from who knows where. To calm them down I made up a song to the tune of "Making Whoopy" It goes like this:

The trees are naked
they have no clothes on
their leaves have fallen to the ground
The trees are naked
they have no clothes on
They're making compost!
duh-duh-duh-duh-duh duht!

I love you!
Your sis