October 6, 2010
Day 29
The Watercolor Tour
Clouds hang heavy and low on the hills. Today’s route is more sheltered from the wind so the canopy still boasts its colorful crest. Wind whips the recently freed leaves across the road, as we wind our way to our next destination. Colorful landscapes along a river’s edge wait for the curtain of rain to lift. Many beautiful pictures not taken. We discover that Jack’s raincoat is no longer waterproof. Umbrellas are packed!
Visiting Robert Frost’s home I found a poem that best describes today’s sights.
In Hardwood Groves
The same leaves over and over again!
They fall from giving shade above
To make one texture of faded brown
And fit the earth like a leather glove.
Before the leaves can mount again
To fill the trees with another shade,
They must go down past things coming up.
They must go down into the dark decayed.
They must be pierced by flowers and put
Beneath the feet of dancing flowers.
However it is in some other world
I know that this is way in ours.
Robert Frost
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