“Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.”
Woe is me! Woe is me! My back was terrible yesterday, last night and this morning. I maneuvered by holding on to stuff as I moved. Last night I woke up several times when I heard moaning. No ghosts or spirits, just me. This morning you’d have sworn Quasimodo, Igor and I were blood relations sharing the same handicap. I was grouchy and miserable.
Now I am finally feeling better. The pain cream and the Aleve worked liked magic. Though I am not completely upright I no longer resemble the left side of the evolution chart.
The eclipse last night was awesome in the true definition of the word. I watched it all from the front of my house where I had an unobstructed view as the moon darkened. I was mesmerized when the blood moon appeared and lit up the sky. It was if the moon and the sky around it had been painted with water colors.
Today is the loveliest of days, sunny and warm. Rain is due the next few days, but it will be welcomed as we haven’t seen much rain since the summer began. Besides, this has been such a spectacular fall I can’t begrudge Mother Nature a bit of rain.
We used to iron the colored leaves between pieces of waxed paper. I didn’t understand why it happened. I just knew the wax paper kept the colors alive. I’d keep the leaves on my bureau as keepsakes. Sometimes I’d even use one as a bookmark. I think the bright red was my favorite color but the yellow was close behind. We’d pick the leaves up our way home from school and put them between the pages of our books so they wouldn’t get wrinkled. The single ones on the sidewalk were the best as the ones in the piles along the curbsides would crumble.
I could hardly wait to get home and change into play clothes. At the kitchen table, now transformed into a craft table, my mother would turn on the iron then tear off pieces of wax paper for us to use. I remember gliding the iron back and forth across the paper, and I remember when the leaves were captured by the melting wax. Every one was beautiful.
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September 28, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Too bad no one knew that trick with the waxed paper, our leafs always turned brown within a few days. Now I like them brown, I have a red oak leaf lying by my kitchen window and even if it had looked much more cool red this looks more real in a way.
I too watched the blood moon this morning, it was still dark when I got up at 5am. It was much darker than I had anticipated so I didn’t get any photo of it. Glad I got the chance to see it this time since I would be 81, if I still live, next time a super blood moon comes along 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
September 28, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Christer,
My yard is mostly pine, which doesn’t change, and oaks so I have a lot of red leaves. The cape hasn’t a wide variety of leaves so the colors are muted.
I did the same, checking that I would probably be gone when the next one comes. Luckily the blood moon was early last night so I got to see it from the start to the finish.
Enjoy the evening!
September 28, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Hi Kat,
I watched the blood moon, too. Outside on the side of my house where the klieg lights that are supposed to be street lights bathe the whole place in horrid sulfur yellow.
I wanted to photograph the moon. When I went out, I saw the shadow on the left side and figured I had missed it. I seem to remember the solar eclipses and other lunar eclipses I saw going from right to left. I hadn’t missed it. I will have to google the physics.
In any case, Christer gave me the correct settings for my camera and I went out to photograph the moon. My lens isn’t long enough and I don’t have a tripod so you can imagine that my images are tiny and blurry. One is really, really blurry. I’m keeping that one because it’s cool.
Most of the time I spent just looking up at it because I didn’t want to miss it.
I think we ironed our leaves inside those wax paper sandwich bags. That is another smell that brings back memories. We used to collect the milkweed pods that were fluffy and spray the fluff with hairspray to keep it in place. Empty ones we sprayed with paint. They made lovely decorations for fall.
Sorry your back is acting up. I feel your pain. Most of me is aching and has been for the last week or so. I could blame it on the flu shot or the weather. Or both. Anyway, I hope things improve for you and me.
Enjoy the day.
September 28, 2015 at 5:18 pm
Hi Caryn,
I know exactly that color you mean. Horrid is a perfect adjective.
I didn’t know how to set my camera, but I did manage a couple of good pictures. I too didn’t want to miss any of it, but it was chilly sitting outside so I came in and then checked every 5 or 10 minutes.
My mother never used wax paper bags for our lunch so we had the sheets. I used to go into the woods to collect stuff which had fallen to the ground. I used them for decorations. Now I use them to make decorate Christmas wreaths.
Right now after more Aleve I’m feeling jaunty, but this morning I felt like crying from the pain but instead I just yelped.
May we both get well!!