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Going for the Gold
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 287 Views ::
0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry
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I don't have to tell you how strange the weather has been this autumn. Nothing was as it usually is: no sharp October frosts (although the katydids sang early enough), brutal hurricane rains that whipped leaves from parts of the trees, heavy snow that bowed others... You saw it too.
As a result, we have had none of those wonderful colors that the "leafers" look for as they cruise, ever so slowly, over the roads in our part of the Hudson Valley. Even we regulars have looked in vain for the reds and deep oranges that usually flame through the woodlands.
But last weekend, with autumn warmly waning, I noticed something I have not seen before. The leaves that are left, many of them hugging only half a bruised tree, those leaves are deep gold. They seem to be defiantly saying to us passersby: "Nature had a hard time this year, but look at us. We are the last bits of autumn and we are beautiful." And they are.
Throughout the valley, I saw them everywhere, golden bursts of glory that must have heard Dylan Thomas say, "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light." They were reminding us that the last are sometimes more glorious than the first.
A final scene: as my bus sped up the Thruway I caught sight of a group of deer in their dark winter coats grazing near a pond. They were almost invisible under the overhanging branches of a gilded tree. There was no photographer nearby, only my eyes in the bus window, but I treasured that beauty as autumn slowly gives way to winter. Why not look for it? |
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