On the way home from the doctor’s office, I passed a field of pumpkins. I slowed my car and watched children run ahead of their parents and tumble over hay bales on their way to the middle of the field. The scene stimulated images of my children and our annual pumpkin patch outings long ago. When I arrived home, I jotted down my memories. Later I found this quote from Anne of Green Gables. A perfect pairing.
An October World
Cool mornings
warm blankets
pumpkin spice coffee
fuzzy slippers
thick sweaters
knitted hats
children run through
fields of orange
bright and pure
scratchy hay bales
hold round treasures
destined for cement thrones
leaves release like
lazy raindrops
undressing lean limbs
denim blue sky
softens to indigo
while a topaz sun sets
fireplaces sputter
oak, eucalyptus, pine
beckons home through closed doors
murmurs rise to giggles
while knives carve smooth flesh
into jack o lanterns
stews bubble, cinnamon apples bake
chilly evenings, cozy wraps
ease into Autumn
What do you love about Autumn?
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