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“The skies they were ashen and sober;
\nThe leaves they were crisped and sere\u2014
\nThe leaves they were withering and sere;”
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\nFrom “Ulalume” by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)<\/p>\n

I took a walk around to see if there were any photos to be had. And there were a few.\u00a0 Mostly trees holding onto a precious few dead leaves.\u00a0 And the sky and the leaves reminded me of those lines from Poe.\u00a0 And looking it up I noted that Poe was only forty years old when he died.\u00a0 Well, he was a very strange man with many problems.\u00a0 But he did capture some very vivid imagery in some of his work.\u00a0 And late fall is his special time of year.\u00a0 October, November and December seem to be the time and mood of his prose and poetry.\u00a0 Maybe Poe could qualify as one of Ray Bradbury’s “October People.”<\/p>\n

Autumn is a very good time of the year to be in a warm house and sharing good food and good talk with friends and family.\u00a0 And Thanksgiving is sneaking up on us so I checked up on Camera Girl’s holiday planning and indeed she assures me that a twenty five pound turkey will be included and that ample and various pies and other desserts will appear on the menu, so everything seems to be in order.<\/p>\n

She informed me that Walmart has begun playing Christmas music outside the building.\u00a0 Apparently broadcasting it will attract holiday shoppers by some sort of sympathetic vibration.\u00a0 I asked her if the music put her in the holiday spirit and she rolled her eyes at me.\u00a0 Despite her clear lack of spirit I will be starting my annual Christmas music marathon very soon.\u00a0 The centerpiece of this program is the album that my parents used to play when I was about ten, “The Little Drummer Boy” by the Harry Simeone Chorale.\u00a0 When I hear those versions sung I might as well be ten years old again.\u00a0 For a little while I can forget the horrors of the world around us and bask in the old remembered warmth of being a kid in Real America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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