Residual Thoughts

"My November Guest..."

11/30/2021

"November's Gray Haze" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be...
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky...
Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow...

~Robert Frost, "My November Guest,"

"Cosy fire a-burning bright..."

11/29/2021

"Cold Outside Warm Inside" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Cosy fire a-burning bright,--
Cosy tables robed in white,--
Dainty dishes smoking hot,--
Home! And cold and snow forgot!

~Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron

"We seldom think of November in terms of beauty..."

11/28/2021

"A Stand of Birch Trees" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"We seldom think of November in terms of beauty or any other specially satisfying tribute. November is simply that interval between colorful October and dark December. Then, nearly every year, come a few November days of clear, crisp weather that make one wonder why November seldom gets its due.
There is the November sky, clean of summer dust, blown clear this day of the urban smog that so often hazes autumn...
There is the touch of November air, chill enough to have a slight tang, like properly aged cider. Not air that caresses, nor yet air that nips. Air that makes one breathe deeply and think of spring water and walk briskly."

~Hal Borland

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.” ~Khalil Gibran

11/27/2021

"November Fields" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"November is Native American Heritage month..."

11/26/2021

"Ice Forming" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country's beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country."

~Deb Haaland

"This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before." ~ Maya Angelou

11/25/2021

"Happy Thanksgiving" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"November woods are bare and chill..."

11/24/2021

"Rare November" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

November woods are bare and still;
November days are clear and bright;
Each noon burns up the morning's chill;
The morning's snow is gone by night...
November woods are bare and still;
November days are bright and good;
Life's noon burns up life's morning chill;
Life's night rests feet which long have stood...

~Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." ~Thornton Wilder

11/23/2021

"Thanksgiving Anticipation" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~G.K. Chesterton

11/22/2021

"Gray & Cold" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." ~William Faulkner

11/21/2021

"November Walk - Rockaway Beach - Pacifica, CA - 2010" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)