at Autumn's peak color, the neighborhood becomes very scenic
Photo by J. Harrington
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If we've experienced a frost this Autumn, it hasn't been noticeable. We have had a hard freeze, according to the skim ice we've seen on the bird bath two different mornings. That may qualify our current spell of warmer weather as "Second Summer." Next week, closer to month's end, we'll begin preparation for Samhain / Halloween. There's jack-o-lanterns to carve and, maybe, a brush pile bonfire to torch, if rain or snow allows.
Bending above the spicy woods which blaze,
Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun
Immeasurably far; the waters run
Too slow, so freighted are the river-ways
With gold of elms and birches from the maze
Of forests. Chestnuts, clicking one by one,
Escape from satin burs; her fringes done,
The gentian spreads them out in sunny days,
And, like late revelers at dawn, the chance
Of one sweet, mad, last hour, all things assail,
And conquering, flush and spin; while, to enhance
The spell, by sunset door, wrapped in a veil
Of red and purple mists, the summer, pale,
Steals back alone for one more song and dance.
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