quote

Calm and deep peace in this wide air,

These leaves that redden to the fall,

And in my heart, if calm at all,

If any calm, a calm despair."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

sonnet time

"That time of year thou mayest in me behold,

When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang,

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou seest the twilight of such day."

- William Shakespeare

quote

"Thus harvest ends its busy reign,

And leaves the fields their peace again,

Where Autumn's shadows idly muse

And tinge the trees in many hues."

- John clare

More yard art - glass totems, cont'd

Back in August I posted some photos of the glass yard art I was making. Here are a few more photos:

(Reminder - click on the picture to see it better.)

Below is a photo of most of them, catching the autumn rays in my front room when I first brought them in for the winter. It is important to remember to bring these glass things indoors, along with china tea cups, clay flower pots, and the like - to keep the frost from cracking them. I have put the blue glass owl totem on the coffee table now, but will probably have to store it in a safer place for the winter.

quote

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,

And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt"

- William Allingham

poem

ASPARAGUS

If melancholy had a home, it would be

A garden in October when frost has picked

The last tomatoes and pinched the peppers free.

I wandered such a place one day; I kicked

Through rotting tangled vines of cucumber

And broken pods of okra, broccoli plants

With stems like trees, and quiet as in slumber,

Two grapes winding up a fence. My glance,

However, fixed at lst on a bed filled

With tall asparagus wholly gone to seed:

Like Christmas trees they stood, their bulbs spilled

Beneath to settle in the earth, freed

For next year's growth. It was a fine bed

(I guessed it at five seasons) showing good care,

And more, restraint. Asparagus is better bred

With patience; the grower's cutting hand must spare

Emough green shoots to drive the crop to come.

He knows each year brings more if he holds

His urge to gather early, leaving some

To infuse the soil with life, for life folds

Into life. I have seen men swallow dreams

From tasting too much extravagance, consuming thus

Too much too soon, and failing, so it seems,

To savor the wisdom in asparagus.

- Bruce Jacobs