Awesome Autumn...(and an oldie repost of Ode to the Apple)

Happy First Day of Autumn, everyone!

Right now we are having more summer-like weather than we did all summer!!

...turning the apples I was planning to 'applesauce' next week into a Must for today

Because none of us knows if this will be our last
first day of fall,let's make it a good best one, 'kay?

(recently this community has had a few sudden, grim reminders of how volatile life is)

  (see Ode to the Apple rerun below)

...so it begins; earth's Awesome undoing

Carpet of cricket-song covers the land

Colors coordinate ‘neath High Command

Carmine, magenta, sienna, gold, tan

Vision is awed by God’s Masterpiece plan

Plum, pink, peach, persimmon, purple, earth’s grief

Tossed to the tress of deciduous leaf

Nature’s grand Magnum Opus is unfurled

We watch God, awed by autumn’s wonder-world

Treetops like beacons against azure blue

Stirs us to worship; ah, we must choose Who

I choose the Maestro of earth’s orchestra

Tuning thought’s tempest with ultimate awe

Carpet of crackle beneath our feet

Farewell, a sparkle of red bittersweet

Here on a heath of demise we applaud

Death; Awed by Beauty of each breath of God

Humbly we harvest the fruit of the field

Mercy-filled seed-pods burgeon with hope’s yield

Orchard bends earthward, so too sprig and vine

Hungry hearts awed by God’s Supreme design

© Janet Martin

Ode to the Apple

 

Apple cakes

Apple tarts,

Apple crumble

Apple crisp

Apple muffins

Apple salads

Apple fritter

Apples dipped

Apple jelly

Apple butter

Apple loaf

With apple tea

Apple grunts

And apple goodie

Fit enough

For royalty

Apple strudel

Apple Danish

Apple stuffing

Apple flan

Apple dumpling

Apple stewed

Apple sauce

Poured from a can

Apple wine

Apple cider

Apple roll-ups

Apple pies

Apple cheese-cake

Apple trifle

Apples for a snow-man’s eyes

Apple Brown-betty

Apple pan-dowdy

Apple torte

And apple pared

Apple cobbler

Candy-apple

Apples sliced, or dried

In squares

Apples baked

With cinnamon-sugar

Apples on a Christmas tree

Tell me is there any other

Fruit with such versatility?

Janet~

Re-posting an oldie because it's applesauce-making day...