A few weeks ago I woke with the words of one of my college English professors, Richard Sewall, repeating in my head. At the end of a busy semester, he had tried to inspire our class to continue to read the good stuff (it was with him that we read Moby Dick, still one of my all-time favorites); in the middle of his last lecture he cried “Coat your minds with gold!”
That urging stuck with, and it pops up every now and again in my thoughts. This particular morning the sun was shining in the liquid way it does in late October, and while the vivid reds and scarlets of maples had mostly gone by, the landscape was still full of gold foliage. With Professor Sewall’s words echoing, I got up and began taking photos of some of the gold.
Norway maple
Norway maple
Silver maple
Oak
Norway maple leaves in juniper
Chrysanthemums
Rudbeckia, still going into November
No design observations here, just a look at some of the retinal balm that surrounded us for several weeks.
Deborah Howe
Toby Wolf
Lucky gold, so late! That should coat your mind for a while.