Autumn and Winter Holiday Photos, Songs, Poems, Comments, and Snark

[Martina]

Autumn and Winter Holiday Photos, Songs, Poems, Comments, and Snark

I am a sucker for the photo threads. I'd like to see one with images for the upcoming holidays. Shall we concentrate on harvest themes till the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is over? Doesn't matter. Anyway, snark and cultural criticism are welcome. As are sentiment and sparklies and genuine expressions of gratitude and joy.

(0h and this is not meant to encroach on the annual Tom Turkey thread.)

This happened once when I was in grad school and our friends got together.


I spent the summer in Sonoma and am going up the weekend before Thanksgiving. I hope it looks like this.

[princessbelle]

I shared this pic on facebook but it is worthy of this thread i think...

I took this from my car when i was visiting patients a few weeks ago up on Rockwood Mountain. The beauty i have seen this season makes my heart so happy.

I just stopped my car and soaked it all in for a moment.

Love this time of year!!!!

Love this thread!!!!

[julieisafemme]

I am too technologically challenged to know how to post pictures. I can add a story.

One Thanksgiving my Gramps was there. He was in a nursing home at the time. He sat at the head of the table with a glass of beer and he was pretty happy. He was not supposed to eat solid food and so had his plate of the mushy stuff. After dinner was over and everyone was lounging around in the living room Gramps shuffled his wheelchair over to the turkey platter and grabbed a huge turkey leg and chowed down. By the time someone saw him he had eaten down to the bone and did not choke. He was really happy. I hope someday when I am old I will be able to wheel myself up to the table and eat a turkey leg! I miss my Gramps and the holidays always makes me think of the delicious red cabbage he used to make.

[Martina]

Lovely photo. Tennessee in the Fall. Perfect.

Great story, Julie. Made me smile.

[Kätzchen]

When my sons were very young (before they were even teenagers), I used to take them to Laurelhurst Park and we'd feed the ducks, watch the swans, then retreat to the playground and I'd sit in a swing and watch them climb like monkeys on metal structures and run with glee saying, "Mommy, Mommy, watch me!!!!"

And, I did... My boys were a source of delight and joy as children and quite playful too.

[Martina]

We had these when I was a kid. I think you could get them with green stamps.

[Martina]

vegetarian Thanksgiving meal. Looks yummy.

[Duchess]

Gathering Leaves

by Robert Frost

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?

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