Wednesday 29 October 2008

we are all different colours

It's been two days of wet, windy, grey weather.

When I peeped outside this morning and saw the sun (the sun!) shining down through the remaining leaves and skipping across the surface of the river, it was all I could do not to run outside and shout.

Hello! Where have you been??

Today we'll go out in the wind and the sun and play in all that flash and arresting autumn-tide until the kids smell like toasty crunchy leaves themselves, and then we'll sneak back in for warm milk

and maybe a cooky.

Days like this are so alive.

9 comments:

Sue said...

Very nice post, I can feel the story you just laid out for us!

Loth said...

Sounds like our normal weather got delivered to you by mistake the past couple of days! We've had snow. Snow! Before Halloween!

molly said...

Lovely word pics! I'm very partial to small people who smell like crunchy leaves......

Suzanne said...

Sounds like my kind of fall day!

Pam said...

Can I come too? Sounds more fun than work.

Anonymous said...

I love days like that. Wish it was warmer...

Woman in a Window said...

lovely, I'd like to be there in the crunch of leaves and cookies!

Anonymous said...

Oh, how I wish I had a blast of that sunshine!

crazymumma said...

oh sheeshe darling, I kept your web window open all nite......rest assured i am not stalking you.

Lovely post, so evocative.

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