“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes–days full of a fine, pale sunshine that sifted through the late, leafless grandeur of the trees and glimmered among the grey beeches, lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines.”
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery (paraphrased slightly, with apologies)
Gratefully shared by Betty Hanselman Gardener’s wife (& gladly reminded of November’s beauty)
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“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
“Through the trees that ring the pond the sky shows in moving patches of blue and white. Clouds passing overhead let the sunlight through intermittently, and as the landscape brightens and dulls it seems to twist and bend, expanding and contracting into pools of light and shadow. Now the sun is out and a soft light filters down through layers of translucent new maple leaves. . . . Waves of light ripple off the water, shimmer up the stones, the trunks and branches of trees, rising in endless waves as if returning to the sun.
Everything about this place seems to belong here. The water that slips out from the shadows of the forested hillside at the back and pools before running on to the river below . . . . All of these seem not to be separate elements fitted together in one place, but rather elements that are very much of the place. Born of it, nurtured by it, at one with it. Complete.”
~ Marc Peter Keane, from The Art of Setting Stones & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
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