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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fall has arrived...


To Autumn

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.


2.Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,

Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.


3.Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

-- John Keats


(photos taken in Provo Canyon)

6 comments:

Ashley said...

I'm so excited about the cooler weather. The only problem is that all of Kennedy's clothes are too big for her. :)

Heidi said...

LOVE LOVE LOVE the fall season! especially since we get seasons here in CO. Beautiful pictures!

Breana and Jordan Holmes said...

you're so lucky that Utah actually has a fall. i wish california did!

Dejah said...

Those pictures are gorgeous. I.am.so.jealous! I have been yearning to get to Utah and feel Fall.

Amber said...

I want to be there!

Jada said...

Lori your photos are beautiful. I wish I were closer to the canyon. Happy Fall!

Jada