Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Leaves


 
The stripped and shapely
Maple grieves
The loss of her
Departed leaves
 


 
The ground is hard,
As hard as stone.
The Year is old,
The birds are flown.
 


 And yet the world,
Nevertheless,
Displays a certain
Loveliness---
 
from "A Child's Calendar" by John Updike
illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman
 

2 comments:

quilt'n-mama said...

Love your leaf photos!
What a huge leaf next to katherine's head!
Hope you are enjoying the end of fall, it has turned cold here, now if we could only get a little snow with the cold wind:)

Anonymous said...

Oh, Aunt Melissa will be printing and framing these!