Life in Three Acts

There was a play staged

by a forest primeval

I had a bit part

I served as the stage manager

in a play within a play

put on for my own benefit

I was also the audience

I wrote the plot

which included a twist ending

which I did not see coming

turns out, I was not

the author of the play

after all, just a patsy

Life, in three acts

beginning with the denouement

they'll never see it coming

Walking Through Autumn: Week 10

As Autumn winds down
the colors are no longer as bright
reds, gold, yellows and oranges
have been replaced by

mahogany, rust, leather and copper

But

just as Autumn starts to fade in glory

the ancient Ginkgo trees have

exploded with their

bright yellow joy

bringing a new day

...and this, too, will fade

but the circle of the year will

roll on and on

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...

Walking Through Autumn: Week 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've reached that time of Autumn

when it's less about the brightness of the

color of the fallen leaves

and more about the depth of the color

Some piles of bronzed and leathered leaves

suggest the possibility of stepping

right through them into another World

Deep, welcoming, mystery
let us enter therein

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...

Walking Through August: Week 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I began watching Autumn last month
the predominant sweet Autumn smell I smelled was walnut

Walnuts falling from the trees and releasing their
succulent scent everywhere

Now, at the peak of the Fall Colors,
I’m smelling a little bit of everything

The sassafras and all the oaks, the maple and the walnut
sweet gum, tulip poplar, sycamore, chestnut, elm...
They’re all there, baptizing the woods and
all who enter therein

 

Let us stir those holy waters

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...

Walking Through Autumn: Week 7

What we think of as “Autumn” - at least in our part of the world
are the weeks when the oaks and maples begin to turn

That time has arrived

The tulip poplars, sycamore and hickories
have been browning and going yellow for weeks now
each with their own charm
but this week
the oaks and maples are making
their golden and red presence be known

May we recognize that glory while it’s here

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...

Walking Through Autumn: Week 6

It’s been a bumper year for acorns
rolling across the forest floor in all shapes and sizes

They say that each oak tree produces ten thousand acorns
and of those thousands of acorns
most are eaten by animals and only one or two
become a mature mighty oak
and yet

not one of them goes to waste

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...

Walking Through Autumn: Week 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
It was a week of yellow
gold and bright amber

The walnut leaves fell in clumps
alongside the basswood, northern spicebush, tulip poplar and pawpaw
a golden yellow that spoke of the sun and the seasons
and bright days yet to be

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This Autumn, I took time to take regular photos and notes to map the passing days of the Fall season...