The Autumn Leaves Drift Past My Window

These photos were taken in the garden this morning.

Now is the time for the burning of the leaves,
They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke
Wandering slowly into the weeping mist.
Brittle and blotched, ragged and rotten sheaves!
A flame seizes the smouldering ruin, and bites
On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist.
The last hollyhock’s fallen tower is dust:
All the spices of June are a bitter reek,
All the extravagant riches spent and mean.
All burns! the reddest rose is a ghost.
Spark whirl up, to expire in the mist: the wild
Fingers of fire are making corruption clean.
Now is the time for stripping the spirit bare,
Time for the burning of days ended and done,
Idle solace of things that have gone before,
Rootless hope and fruitless desire are there:
Let them go to the fire with never a look behind.
That world that was ours is a world that is ours no more.
They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring;
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.

 ~Laurence Binyon

 

Autumn is a wonderful time of year but the beautiful colours are all too fleeting and the leaves are falling fast now.

We saw Nathan and Daniel this morning and they were well wrapped up for the chilly weather.  Not quite sure what Nathan was looking at in this photo

 

 

Normally he hates anything on his head and takes hats off as soon as they are put on but he actually choose this one himself.  When he was in the shop he ran over and grabbed it and is very happy to wear it.

 

 

Here he is again entertaining us with his clapping song. Daniel, on the other hand, is one for cuddly toys.  He just adores the lamb that I have here.  Strange because my favourite toy as a child was a lamb called Larry, I remember him so well.  I was heartbroken to come home from school one day to find my mother had thrown him away thinking I was too old for him now.  He was my closest companion, the one I told all my secrets to.  It is lovely that Daniel now takes this lamb with him wherever he goes in our home.

 

He had been wearing his hat, different to Nathan's more of a Russian style and it had flattened all his pretty curls.  However, those curls will not be around much longer. His hair is now so long it is getting in his eyes and Becky has decided that it really has to be cut for the first time in the near future.  I wonder how different he will look?

Well, tomorrow is new oven fitting day.  I am hoping it will not be too cold because as the electrics have to be switched off, that means no heating.  Extra jumpers all around!!! I do not know how long it will take, but I should imagine a good part of the day as we are also having a new fuse box fitted.  If I am on the computer it will not be until tomorrow evening unless I can sneak on before the work starts.

Have a great weekend everyone.