Stand Therefore ~

(a little click will enlarge the photo)
a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.  I think I too have known
autumn too long
ee cummings

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they are falling fast
yet many remain
seasons change
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The Here And Now ~

the blue was just that blue

the gold that gold

yesterday afternoon

the brilliance

 shone

*  *  *

"I want to remember

to let myself be intoxicated

 in the present

 - the here and now -

 so I can see the beauty

 right in front of me."

 Matt Knisely

 Framing Faith

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Seasons Meeting ~

they touch

on the edge of the woods

sharing their color and light

summer and autumn moments

*  *  *

It is the summer's great last heat,
It is the fall's first chill: They meet.
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

*  *  *

the equinox

here

Graced ~

“How beautifully leaves grow old.

  How full of light and color are their last days.”

John Burrough

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The Chair ~

 it's not

 an easy chair

that rocks

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“I dread no more the first white in my hair,

Or even age itself, the easy shoe,

 The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair,

Time, doing this to me, may alter too

 My sorrow, into something I can bear.”

Edna St. Vincent Milay

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And even to your old age I am he;

 and even to gray hairs will I carry you:

 I have made, and I will bear;

 even I will carry,

 and

 will deliver you.

Isaiah 46:4

A Friendly Stroll ~

In every walk with nature

 one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

*  *  *

I have a longtime friend visiting

 and we took an autumn stroll.

Many of you know her as 

Caryjo Roadrunner

AKA

Joanne Norton

 author of

The Annie Project

 

The Beckoning ~

it beckons

autumn does

inviting one to share

in its timely demise

transitioning out of verdant life

*  *  *

"What can we do

 but keep on breathing in and out,

 modest and willing, and in our places?"

Mary Oliver

Impending ~

"Now autumn's fire

burns slowly along the woods

and day by day

the dead leaves fall and melt."

William Allingham

*  *  *

the woodbine is turning

one of the signs

 of autumn's approach

Daylily ~

 "I know a little garden close

Set thick with lily and red rose,

Where I would wander if I might

From dewy dawn to dewy night,

And have one with me wandering."

William Morris

*  *  *

true to their name

they only bloom for a day

one can almost slip into their colors

 

"Teased Out Of Thought" ~

 "Very lovely, he thought,

 are the sudden moments of relief

 that come in the midst of strain,

  those moments of forgetfulness when

 we are 'teased out of thought' by

 a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun;

 lovely though so transient,

 the reversal of those brief moments

 that visit us even in

 the midst of joy."

Elizabeth Goudge

 from

 A City Of Bells

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the bluebird fledgling revived

 thanks to my kind-hearted grandson
*  *  *
John 10:27-29