BEAUTIFUL THIS YEAR....

 "The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks..." -Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)

 GOD's WORLD by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Written 1917. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923.....only the 3rd woman to do so  at that time.

 O world, I cannot hold you close enough!

 Your wind, your wide gray skies!

 Your mists, that roll and rise!

 Your woods, this autumn day,

 that ache  and sag

 and all but cry with colour!

 That gaunt crag to crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!

 World, world! I cannot get you close enough!

 Long have I known a glory in it all

 But never knew I this,

 Here such a passion is as stretcheth me apart.

 I do fear you made the world too beautiful this year.

sturgeon moon

 My soul is all but out of me.....let fall

 No burning leaf...........

 Let no bird call!

 PHOTOGRAPHS 2019