Elizabeth’s Reviews > A Countryman’s Autumn Notebook > Status Update

“The lawn is now the leaves’ dancing floor…The wind is their music and impulse…there are the leaves from the creeper on the house, scarlet, like soldiers, and green leaves, fresh as summer, from the lime. Away they go, and even the dowager leaves of sober brown and silver grey awake and join the gallopade…” (188).

“‘Things men have made with wakened hands…are awake through the years with transferred touch, and go on glowing,’ says a later poet” (187).

Must find out which poet! I love that!

Chestnut Time was beautifully written and funny!!