September 22

PA Mom-mom · ‎05-27-2015

@AnikaBrodie wrote:
@Sweet Caroline 1 wrote:
@PA Mom-mom wrote:
One of my favorite poems, and a picture of our white oaks planted by my dad 60 years ago.

To Autumn
John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

@PA Mom-mom, Thank you for the Poem! The White Oaks are beautiful! I know that you think of your father every time you look at them, standing straight and sturdy.
@PA Mom-mom @Sweet Caroline 1

Thank you for sharing John Keats poem with us. I read it several times already and enjoyed it. Did your dad introduce you to the poem? I got the impression his career was in education, perhaps as teacher or professor. The white oaks are beautiful, so strong and majestic. I can feel why they give you such a strong attachment to your dad.

I, too, live in Pennsylvania, in close proximity to the Susquehanna River. Welcome to our wonderful forum. Please join us often.

@AnikaBrodie Thank you! My grandmother was my poetry influence. My dad's Mom. But, she was much more into regionalism. She loved Frost, and so did I. She was a contemporary of Walt Whitman (she was born in 1880)), and she thought he was scandalous.

My dad was a purchasing agent; but, like many people of his age in my family, he was well versed in all things arts, literature and music. He loved gardening.

UpNorthGorgy · ‎09-19-2024

@Sassy7356 10% color here, N. WI. and 50% in N.Minn. Trips to the N. Shore started. They started putting up Bentlyville in Duluth. Last year they were vandalized before opening so hope all goes well.

Thankyou for taking the time putting together the lovely color show. So good I will look again.🍁🍂

hullie · ‎03-28-2010

@PA Mom-mom

Loved the Keats poem, thanks, I don't remember ever reading it. I love poetry as well, thanks to my mom. I inherited all her lovely poetry books. Welcome to our thread.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@hullie wrote:
@mousiegirl wrote:
@hullie wrote:
Today I brushed Bijou good. He still loves me, ha. Grilled a hamburger and roasted some cherry tomatoes to go with it. Cleaned out a desk drawer, it is so boring going through papers. Got my step ladder out and cleaned the top shelf out of three of my cupboards. I don't use those things, that is why they're so high up. I sent pictures to nieces to see if they needed anything and will donate all they don't want. Now I need to water my flowers and then fix supper. PBS has three good shows on one right after the other tonight, nothing better than a British murder mystery.

@hullie You were brave to get onto a ladder, I will never nor DH, will have to hire someone. I fell off enough to now know that I can't use them.

I have been collecting items for donation, what I know DD won't want nor can use, which isn't that much, lol, but every little bit of donating helps ease the clutter.

We are selling my SVU for demolition and getting paid $2,000 for it. I will never drive it again, already fell as I was stepping into it, and slipping off, too high for my bad knees now. I don't like DH's car, way too low to the ground so is difficult for me to get into with the knees, but that is what I will have to drive.
@mousiegirl
I bought a ladder on qvc that has a bar I can hang onto as I climb and I go very slow. That is partly why I an getting rid of the stuff, I don't need to be climbing ladders. I recognize my vulnerability on my last two falls and I am going through the process of whittling down my stuff. I have a lot I have accumulated over the years and when I have gone through it all I will start over and eliminate more. It is too bad your daughter lives so far away. Have you and your husband thought about selling your place and moving closer to her? I know there are other places I would like to live but where I am now is closest to what family I have left.

@hullie First, I would never step foot in Texas, way too hot for me. Secondly, DD will not remain in Texas, has wanted to leave since she got there, too hot and buggy.

She is thinking Oregon and that is only about twelve driving hours away.

She is driving the 24 hours from Texas to here, sleeping here tomorrow night, then leaving Tuesday for a rodeo three hours away to work in the photography area, so not around the horses, think that is sad because that is what she wants, to be back riding, etc.

She will drive back here after that work is done, and spend a week or so, she said, but who knows. I want her to, given our ages, and I have a lot to discuss with her for after I am gone, and show her.

I bet Bijou looks spiffy!