The Forgotten Fall Leaves

I haven't taken any fall pictures this year, I am sad to say. The leaves peaked in the middle of the week at one point, and then when I went for a walk in the woods with my folks Thanksgiving weekend, I forgot my camera.

But I don't think I blogged any pictures from last year, so here is this year's fall meditation. These were shot up at the cottage. I believe my daughter shot the middle picture, but I am not entirely sure.


EARTH! my likeness!
Though you look so impassive,
ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect
there is something fierce in you,
eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamour’d of me—
and I of him;
But toward him there is something
fierce and terrible in me,
eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—
not even in these songs.

(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)