AUTUMN

by compound complex 39 Replies latest jw friends

  • ReallyTrulyAthena
    ReallyTrulyAthena

    CoCo - thank you for your writing. You are very good and have quite the distinct "voice". Reading today's passage, I felt as if I was transported to this place. I had just started to go back and read some of your other posts and look forward to new ones!

    Autumn is my favorite time of year as well. The whole stripping away and 'letting go of the old' in preparation of settling in for a long winter's slumber...

    I'm currently living in CO. It's beautiful out here in the Fall (well - all year, really), but I will admit to being homesick for Western NY with the variety of trees and the accompanying riot of color that those leaves bring this time of year. coffee_black'slink brought back some powerful memories of our family making long, autumnal pilgramages to out-of-the-way roadside stands with apples and cider jugs and maple candies...*sigh* Ahhhh, Home. (coffee_black - nice drawings, too!)

    Thanks all, for sharing the pictures...ooooooooo, pretty.

    Here's my contribution -- last year a friend of mine and I hiked to Hell's Hole, located in the Mount Evans Wilderness area/Front Range of the Rockies. It was taken from my phone so I can't claim it's the best, but I hope you like it:

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Dear ReallyTrulyAthena:

    A pleasure to make your acquaintance - welcome to the forum!

    If that photo was from your phone, I have to get myself one. Stunning, to say the least.

    Thank you for your kind words. I love describing nature, whether through words upon the page or paint a canvas. When at Bethel, I got away some weekends to upstate New York, remembering the name [West?] Nyack. Pennsylvania, too. I was bowled over by the bodaciousness of the landscape, having been under the impression previously that all New York looked like Brooklyn.

    Thanks again for stopping by.

    CoCo Has Left the Borough

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Upon a wooded vale I fall, Though on trips before
    I missed its lay.

    An enchanted spread, to be
    Sure, which now obtains
    My desire to stay.

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    To me... this town is the quintcential New England Autumn experience. http://www.westonvt.com/shops.html It is the next town over from where we always stayed in VT

    The Road Not Taken

    Robert Frost

    TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

    And sorry I could not travel both

    And be one traveler, long I stood

    And looked down one as far as I could

    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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    Then took the other, as just as fair,

    And having perhaps the better claim

    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

    Though as for that, the passing there

    Had worn them really about the same,

    10

    And both that morning equally lay

    In leaves no step had trodden black.

    Oh, I marked the first for another day!

    Yet knowing how way leads on to way

    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    15

    I shall be telling this with a sigh

    Somewhere ages and ages hence:

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

    I took the one less traveled by,

    And that has made all the difference.

    20

    Coffee

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Upon a wooded vale I fall, Though on trips before
    I missed its lay.

    (lol. nice play on words...)

    my features buried

    in natures bosom

    revealing a woodlands love affair

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, Coffee, for the poem by Frost - absolutely perfect! I'm going to try to memorize it, so now it's handy.

    I appreciate that you noticed, Cameo! And what a lovely photo of the forest faun.

    CoCo Du Bois

  • mamalove
    mamalove

    It has been a gorgeous fall where I live. Mild weather, and lots of sun. Mid to high 60's for weeks now, rain when needed and hot sun on occasion for that cherry on top! Life is good. Tomorrow we take a long drive to visit my grandparents. I will snap some pics of the pretty leaves and scenery if it strikes me.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Have a good and safe trip, Mamalove! Hope to see your photos here.

    A belated welcome to the forum, too.

    CoCo

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    Bailey

    Granddaughter Bailey a year ago... loved the pumpkin patch!

    Coffee

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    b

    ...and Bailey now...still lovin' the pumpkins!

    Coffee

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