City - Wachusett State - MASS Country - United States
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On the cusp of the Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, in only a few week's time the onset of the Autumnal Equinox (this Friday I think) will set this scene ablaze. Huge crop. 200th/sec f/7.1 70mm focal length
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cell.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir, the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Kathy, thank you, and I think you may be right. I DO find composition hard sometimes. I'm learning lots from the comments I get here, especially from ppl like you whose work I respect and admire.
This was a massive crop and I prolly felt gratuitous already! Still, as you have said many times before, who knows what is right and wrong - and of course there is no such thing.
Really pretty scene, Anthony. You're right...Autumn is just around the corner. It will certainly be pretty in your neck of the woods! This is just a personal thing, but I think I would like this better if about one third of the left side between the edge and the house was cropped out. I would like to see the house a little farther from "center." It's probably just me, but it is more pleasing to my eye that way. Kathy
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