Octobers bright blue weather

The changing colors of the trees are inspiring me to do more dyeing.  

The other day there was a storm in the distance but the sun was setting.  The dark blue gray of the sky played off the rays of color coming off the fall colored leaves & it was awesome (in the true sense of the word).  I truly love change but fall is one of my favorite "changes" of the year.  I don't have a photo yet of the blue sky and leaves but as soon as I can I will put one up.  

Here is one with a more subtle sky so you can see a taste... 

My grandmother, Me-Me's favorite poem was:

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

October's Bright Blue Weather

O SUNS and skies and clouds of June,

And flowers of June together,

Ye cannot rival for one hour

October's bright blue weather;

When loud the bumble-bee makes haste,

Belated, thriftless vagrant,

And Golden-Rod is dying fast,

And lanes with grapes are fragrant;

When Gentians roll their fringes tight

To save them for the morning,

And chestnuts fall from satin burrs

Without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie

In piles like jewels shining,

And redder still on old stone walls

Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things

Their white-winged seeds are sowing,

And in the fields, still green and fair,

Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks,

In idle golden freighting,

Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush

Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,

By twos and twos together,

And count like misers, hour by hour,

October's bright blue weather.

O suns and skies and flowers of June,

Count all your boasts together,

Love loveth best of all the year

October's bright blue weather.