New from Dierk Haasis

Take a little time to enjoy the slide show for October, 2011, and then to discover this lovely photo of a daisy, with its poignantly beautiful accompanying poem, all by Dierk Haasis.

Color-filled November 1st

Dogwood






Unidentified Vine

Season's fruit

With apples and grapes in hand from yesterday's trip to the grocery, I took advantage of the sunlight on my back porch railing to take pictures of them to go with Keats's poem "To Autumn," which I had quoted in my blog post of Wednesday, October 27, 2010.


"to bend with apples"


"to load and bless with fruit the vines"


to "burst Joy's grape"

That last caption isn't from John Keats's ode "To Autumn." It's from his ode "On Melancholy." But his imagery there is so great that I wanted to include it in this autumn remembrance of his October 31st birthday.

She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

North Wind Among the Maple Leaves

The maple tree next door still shows mostly green leaves because the strong gusts of the north wind are continually sending the yellow ones down to the ground. It's been so dry this fall that they are very brittle and crunchy underfoot.

At the bottom of the hill, the firebush has just begun to turn its usual briliant red:

Walking in Edwin Warner Park

A path through a wooded area adjoining the Nature Center at Edwin Warner Park is said to be the old roadbed of a portion of the original route of the historic old Natchez Trace, which has run between Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi, from the earliest days of these settlements.



Cobblestones in the path hinder walking a bit, especially in muddy areas strewn with wet leaves.

Fall on Grandview Drive

Looking uphill, west, on Grandview Drive:



Dogwood in the Mist:



Late October Roses:







October lilies:



Side-yard maple:



Leaf:

Thanksgiving Greenery

Back Yard Blue and Gold

Late October Mushroom Views

Sombrero



Grassy Forest