Thursday, November 10, 2011

ODE TO NOVEMBER


Marilyn
 November - with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murkey red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westerning hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes - days full of fine, pale sunshine that sifted through the late, leafless gold of the juniper-trees and glimmered among the grey beeches, lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines. Days with a high sprung sky of flawless turquoise. Days when an exquisite melancholy seemed to hang over teh landscape and dream about the lake. But days, too, of the wild blackness of great autumn storms, followed by dank, wet, streaming nights when there was witch-laughter in the pines and fitful moans among the mainland trees.

– The Blue Castle, L. M. Montgomery (via enchanting)

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