Last week a tree in glory. This morning all its upper branches have lost their leaves. Most of the lower ones have turned rust and will hang on until the new leaves come in early summer. Typical of red oaks.
Autumn is ending today with a bang. Our mountain county is caught between two weather systems, hurricane from the east and blizzard from the west. It looks like the blizzard has won, though maybe it is aided by the winds from Sandy. It started about an hour ago with snow coming straight down mixed with rain. Within twenty minutes it was big flakes of snow blowing almost horizontally from west to east.
Wednesday my kitchen calendar said, "Trees let go gracefully; can you?"
Friday from Neale D. Walsch the quote was "You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it."
I hate to let go of summer. And now autumn. I wasn't quite ready for a winter blizzard.
(The calendar is from the sisters at MinistryOfTheArts.)
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