My favorite time of year! This illustration runs every year in the Chicago Tribune, along with a narrative tribute to Autumn by John McCutcheon.
I like this too:
"Come said the wind to the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows and we will play.
Put on your dresses scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone and the days grow cold."
- A Children's Song of the 1880's
4 comments:
Hi Tink, I love Autumn aswell. I don't get the wonderful colourful changes like back east, but I remember it from when I was growing up. the colours, the weather turning.
Hope all is well with you. xox
Aw ... thanks Grace Everything is moving along where it's supposed to be!
xo
Yeah...sure...Autumn...
It was like 90+ degrees today here! We don't know the meaning of autumn I guess. Actually I think we sort of have an Autumn. It just comes in November and ends in November. Pretty screwy ain't it?
That is a LOVELY children's song about autumn, Tink. I love it when nature is personified like that -- or metaphorized. Metamorphised too?
Reminds me of this German children's book I know: The Root Children. (Wurzel Kinder). The roots sleep underground all winter, then come out in the spring putting on their pretty clothes. Check it out sometime!
As for Fall.... oddly this year I feel a bit differently than I usually do. Maybe coz it hasn't been so blazin' hot as last summer. Feel a tad sad about the cold approaching this time 'round. But maybe this'll pass. Once I start rounding up my soup recipes!
Hope you enjoy your Sunday Tink, and hope things are as good as they can be for you these days....
Love,
Lucy.
(p.s. I LOVE that pen and ink illustration up top. I'm gonna copy it. (finally got my own computer back!!))
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