Autumn: The Climax of Nature’s Story [Patricia Lee]

Do you have a favorite season? It’s hard to choose, isn’t it? Beginning with the first bud on a crocus— Nature’s inciting event—she announces the arrival of Spring and builds her narrative like a well-written plot. The daffodils join the story, popping their yellow heads and beckoning the tulips to follow. The camellia blooms explode

[Susan Kimmel Wright] A Special Autumn Recipe

“There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood…” Every week my fourth-grade teacher passed out our poetry sheets, printed in fragrant purple, from the mimeograph machine. Though I disliked memorization, many of the poems, like this one—”A Vagabond Song” by Bliss Carman—have stuck with me for years. I particularly loved the