So this post is a month late, but there were still leaves on the trees in November when I thought of this poem by Robert Frost. It's a favorite of mine.
My November Guest
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.,
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.
Not yesterday I learned to know
the love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.
--Robert Frost
love this poem, this photo, and this post, simply beautiful
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