I love fall - sweater weather perfect for a brisk walk, a good book and a blanket, a cup of tea or coffee with Ella Fitzgerald playing in the background. There is no other time of year when I find myself so reflective, as if nature were echoing the transformation and growth, the changes in my own life. I wonder what is next...who I will be next fall...what transformations will have taken place...Just a thought...and now a Sunday patchwork of photos and poetry for your viewing pleasure :) Enjoy!
DESIGNED TO PERFECTION by Marcia Schechinger
Of simplistic nature
this bright autumn day
coffee warming the chill of morning
trees tipped with pink hue,
I breathe
How can the grass have
such a glow
or the trees limbs bend and bow
each so original in design
The art of this world surrounds me
yet, have I ever seen that rose before
tapering the neighbors brick
or the black squirrel
curling beneath the brush
pump in belly
from todays abundance of food
How I have worried about
the flowing of life changes
and quickly passed the bent branch
with the darkened hollow
where once a nest was made
Why have I not heard the weeping willow
with its green dreadlocks
touching my window
How many times has it tapped
before I noticed its defined braids
I have swallowed life
without chewing
drank wine forgetting
the grapes that riped for me
Today I shall begin again
like the school child giggling
remembering every leaf on the tree
has a meaning, a purpose
God, the artist, designed
life to perfection
and I have spent my days
looking at it
from way too far away
to see the subtleties
of His design and plan
Today I am not the critic
I am the the observer
the child in awe
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