7th October - a month of autumn to Halloween

[byslantedlight]

I was way too tired when I got home last night to post, and I meant to post this this morning, but there was a Windows Update thing, and then it was one of those days where everything I picked up I seemed to drop, but here it is at last...

Poetry for October
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Pictures for October
Today I was bound for home again, driving through autumn mountain mists, trees that are just beginning to turn, and past autumn-brown bracken and distant views...




Nipped through Aberystwyth, since I was almost there anyway...

...which was on the autumn-wild side...

Then rather astonishingly I came across a Butterfly House. Of course it's in Wales, so it's a Pili Pala House (okay, tŷ pili pala). Anyway, I like them, so when I saw the sign I had to detour the three mere miles to go and find them. *g*





And red berries on the trees by the hydro-dam nearby... Detouring those three miles actually turned into a much longer tiny-wind-y-mountain-road type detour, as the sat nav tried to get me back where it wanted me again, but Little Car drove valiantly up steep one-track roads, and round blind one-track bends until we got back to more solid ways once more, and then it was straight on back into England and down to Somerset.

Prosfic for October
Today my Kobo decided that I would read End of the Path by AngelfishCI5, so I did - and not at all autumnal, but very nice anyway. Then my bedtime reading was the start of Of Angels and Angles by SarahK. I wanted to read longer, but I was just waaaay too sleepy...

...and the Lads!


(I'm getting very cavalier about lj-cuts... Should I put the butterflies under one?)

Comments

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

What fabulous pictures and colours, amazing! And the changing weather... And those butterflies, how did they get to be so beautiful? Thanks a lot for these photos.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Wales was being very beautiful, although I think it almost always is - even on the greyest day there's something! The butterflies were fab - my favourite was one that I couldn't get a picture of, but it looks like the one on the fruit, until it opens its wings, which are the bluest blue... I've tried in other butterfly houses and missed too, but I will keep trying to take a picture of it!

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

I love this poem. Sometimes Frost is too much the ol' Midwestern country boy for me, but this one is perfect. And lovely photos! Beautiful butterflies! Just free. In the natural history museum in my city, there is a butterfly exhibit, but that has the sadness of pent-up things, so much as I like going in it, I keep thinking that the time may come when these are the only butterflies, and I can hardly bear it. At a butterfly house, maybe one would not think that.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I didn't know this poem until now, and I do rather like it - such a gorgeous autumn melacholy...

The butterflies were wonderful - and mostly free! Obviously they're inside the "house", which isn't massive, but it does have warmth and humidity and extra-sugary fruit lying around, so hopefully their world doesn't feel too small...

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Butterflies! so pretty. Don't hide them under the cut. I am not much for poetry, but that is one of my few favourite poems.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes! I do love a good butterfly house! And butterflies in general, really... *g*

I didn't know this poem until I went looking for an autumn one for today, but I really like it. Such lovely melancholy...

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

If you are interested, you should check out a novel called The Outsiders by SE Hinton, which features the poem. It was the first book I ever read in school (freshman, if I recall) which had a main character about my age--literally written by a 16 year old woman, about gangs in 1966 Oklahoma. LOVED the book, and still do.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, we read that in school too of course! I had no idea this poem was in it though - I must obviously go and re-read it! *g*

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Enjoying every bit if this, thank you for sharing! Lovely. Glad you are home safe and sound.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

So glad! And thank you! *g* Hope you're getting to enjoy autumn a bit too!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

The butterflies are lovely. I think the detour was well worth it. And I love that picture of the Lads.

[stellar_raven]

That poem makes me want to read The Outsiders again. Such a lovely poem.