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Category Archives: Autumn
Balloon-set Over Canberra
“Hey, look!” As we were getting up from the table this morning I pointed out the window at the two hot-air balloons hovering high in the sky aways north. “Nice,” she said as we both, after an appreciative but brief … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Sojourn, Autumn, Mental Health, Travels
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Autumn Movement Reflections
November, 2009 I’ve been reviewing the poem “Autumn Movement” by Carl Sandburg and watching Fall beauty come and go and realizing the harder lesson of this season. The easy thing Fall teaches is to be grateful for what we have … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Poem Memorizing Tips and Articles, Poems Memorized
Tagged Autumn Movement, Carl Sandberg, death, fall, loss
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When the Frost is on the Punkin
James Whitcomb Riley WHEN the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock, And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens, And … Continue reading
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Tagged Hoosier, Indiana, James Whitcomb Riley, poems memorized, When the Frost is on the Punkin
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Sun’s Spotlight on Fall’s Palette
The just-over-the-horizon sun this morning lit a landscape of late fall trees in and around a brilliant green golf course and a cluster of white houses with rust red roofs amid more brightly-leaved trees. The whole scene was laid out … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, bright leaves, colors, fall, Ginko, palette, spotlight, stage
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Autumn Striptease
About three hours west of here, close to the sources of the great Potomac which these days saunters lazily by our apartment, a small community in the Appalachians is convening a five-day festival called Autumn Glory. I’m pretty sure scores … Continue reading
Hastening Slowly Through Fall
Forgive my bragging a little, but one reason I enjoy reading Verlyn Klinkenborg’s editorials in the New York Times in a series called “The Country Life,” is that his take on life, his appreciation for growing things, and how he writes about it … Continue reading
Why “To Autumn” Has Been Called One of the Most Perfect Poems In the English Language
I’m going to talk a little about why I have come to love the poem “To Autumn,” why I enjoy reciting it, why it has become pure pleasure letting the words appear beautifully one by one for the benefit of whoever … Continue reading
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To Autumn
John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill … Continue reading
Possible Names for the Apple, Candy Corn and Pretzel Combination
I recently wrote about a unique fall taste treat I like to eat, apples, candy corn and pretzels. I’ve been coming up with possible names for that combo. Here is the list so far. Feel free to add some of your … Continue reading
Apples, Candy Corn and Pretzels
Once upon a time for about five years, in another life I sometimes hardly believe I lived, my office was a car, and my place of work, a couple thousand square miles of Appalachia in portions of West Virginia, Maryland, … Continue reading