Because we’re still having fall and not winter, I thought I’d rub it in…wait, I mean, continue to celebrate our seasonal weather with a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called, Autumn Fires.
Autumn Fires
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The gray smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
Happy Fires of Fall to you all.
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Wow that photo reminds me of when Chris and I first moved to Vancouver. We live up in the Dunbar area with all the beautiful trees! Which is why we planted fire maples along our drive way when we moved out in Mission. Sadly though we had snow on Sunday, wet snow mind you and it was heavy enough that it snapped a large branch off of one of our maples (a yellow one not a fire maple). It was very sad especially since it was the part of the tree with the yellowest leaves.
Speaking of snow and Halloween, I remember tricker treating in snow up to my knees as a kid growing up in Alberta. Hey that candy wasn’t just going to magically appear in my bag, it had to be done!