red, white and blue all over...

(a note to a friend,   i liked it so well, its good enough to share...-in response to recieving a lovely photo of her maple tree in all it's Autum glory in her yard)

Oh so pretty!!!!

I never liked the colorcombination of red white and blue, and thought, it's just not natural!

Then one year, during a visit to New England in Autumn,freezing cold nights and sizzling afternoons, i took my mother and sister to Hancock Shaker farm in the Berkshires...

It is a living history farm, and the shakers all there long since gone, now. My mother and i walked in curiousity mode, one step after another.. as in "Oh, i wonder what is up this dirt road?") It even felt like we'd left the farm and were just walking toward the woods, we actually came  upon a corn field, and i learned that the cemetery was hidden among the rows, in the center, so "the people could hide their dead count from the Indians", in the corner, by the small wrought iron  fence, stood a very old possibly dead, oak tree with a large black bird standing sentinel,watching us, silently.
 When we beagn our return, where the road changed diretion away from that scene,  i noticed one large lonely single magnificent sugar maple in majestic color change, in the bright Sun and i looked up and into it and around it and for the first time ever, i saw this radiance of red surrounded by the brightest pure blue sky with huge white billowy clouds and was awe struck.

I was purely struck through,  as i stood there in the crisp cold air and blazing hot Sun, by my mothers tidbit of history, the idea of burying dead in a corn field, and the magical color combination of red, white and blue in Nature.... an awesome day that will never leave me and i am reminded of, all through the glorious days of Autumn.

I bought a couple peices of ornamental corn this year, (instead of growing any), so to have one to use in Bridey's eve basket.
-And some potatoes i hope age quickly for yummy potatoe pudding!

Love and hugs,
Aleta