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This post has images taken in the past two days with the exception of the abstract, the last photo. The first two were taken in front of the house we live in and the rest were taken yesterday morning as I traveled to Freedom, a small town thirty minutes from home. I thought Fall had run its course, but as with all things of wonder and grace I was wrong to assume so. Such is the way of the Creator - Nature's Spirit, to surprise me unexpectedly .
I have looked at the leaves in the following two images from the second floor window where I write in the morning since Spring's arrival. Yesterday they came into their own revealing a beauty that was hidden all along. So it is with us, one day we decide to show our True Self to each other and the fortress we built to protect ourselves from the world is no longer defended.
I am complexity
I am simplicity
I am balance,
said
Earth
Earth
See my Beauty
In the morning's soft rain
the mystery of the cloud's
gift of Living Water
allowed the perfect leaves
of Spring and Summer
a last chance to arrange
their beauty
before falling from branch
to ground –
They have etched in memory
the colors of this Season
in the hearts of those who
choose to see.
Beauty was hidden in an
ordinary leaf
until the Season of cold
arrived,
then, people started to
say the same things,
How beautiful the Earth
had become …..
A few even stopped to pick
up a single leaf
that offered itself to a
closer look
as its mystery was made
visible.
The Invisible not known
for so long
was now visible.
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On the road to Freedom, Maine
Cows resting from a hard morning of .....
- A field of cows dreaming -
As gulls align themselves against the wind,
it seems that cows have learned from their feathered friends.
An image of Fall somewhat dreary and getting cold.
Sunset is now around five PM and will approach 4:15 soon.
(Something to do with farming. That's all I know.)
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Abstract for this week:
(The bird sitting on the branch is a crow.)
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Some humor:
Until next post,
Bill Lagerstrom
