It's almost irresistible - the urge to decorate the inside with the beauty found outside. Those reds! Those amazing watercolours on leaves - if these were captured on canvas they would be declared masterpieces, yet here they are - dazzling for a few short days before crumbling to dust.
We deck the sitting room with their beauty and wait for replacements until they all have to give way to a more trying season.
Reminders of where we are on our journey round the sun.
We do this too. Actually my husband started it and I found it annoying at first, but now after many autumns it has become exactly as you said - a reminder of where we are on our journey around the sun.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful for such a short while that it seems a pity not to enjoy them fully.
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