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Today's quote:

Thursday, May 30, 2024

We're just raking it in!

"Stilleben" at "Riverbend"

 

STANLEY and I are really raking it in: barrow after barrow of fallen leaves, to be composted for next spring's vegetable garden. It's all quite reminiscent of my childhood in the (c)old country where we used to built castles out of fallen leaves in autumn, and then out of fallen snow in winter.

Funny how I even still remember the songs, word for word, we all used to sing at school; "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" was just one of them.

 

 

Bunt sind schon die Wälder,
Gelb die Stoppelfelder
Und der Herbst beginnt.

Rote Blätter fallen,
Graue Nebel wallen,
Kühler weht der Wind.

Wie die volle Traube
Aus dem Rebenlaube
Purpurfarbig strahlt.

Am Geländer reifen
Pfirsiche, mit Streifen
Rot und weiß bemalt.

Geige tönt und Flöte
Bei der Abendröte
Und im Mondenglanz.

Junge Winzerinnen
Winken und beginnen
Frohen Erntetanz.


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