Autumn Cheer

Golden, fresh and brilliant

early fall afternoon shade

cheerful as sunshine

gracious as swaths of daffodils 

skipping down springtime hillsides.

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Ice Cubes and Apple Sauce

From the Sept 30, 2015 entry in my personal journal - 

“ …………. an old piece of wood tapering to one end with a bulbous shape at the top. Anyone not familiar with this item would wonder at it’s use……..I carried this dry old wooden pestle with me like I carry my childhood memories………As children we were to crush ice cubes for dad’s summer ice tea.”

In what has become ‘the olden days’, the journal entry continued: this old wooden pestle’s real use was to turn cooked apples in a large funnel to squeeze the pulp through and have delicious apple sauce.” Of course the apple sauce needed cinnamon and a bit more sugar to make it very delicious. 

I don’t need the more ‘modern’ pestle for crushing ice, but I do need apple sauce………

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci

A Change in Scenery

out my living room window 

from island west to prairie broad, a change in scenery arises 

from squirrels and deer 

to rabbits and geese

urbanized wildlife pokes and 

nibbles at grass and shrubs

only scampering away when 

threatened by my tap on the window

“Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them……”

~ Angela Carter, the Bloody Chamber and Other Stories