Slowly catching up ...

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AUTUMN DAYS.  BY LOTTIE LINWOOD.

‘Tis Autumn time! the summer flowers

Have faded ‘neath its golden feet;

The birds have left their shady bowers,

And winds chime mournfully and sweet;

The maple boughs, whose folded leaves

Have whispered through the summer days

Like bright-winged birds, around the eaves

Are flitting in the sun’s pale rays;

I hear their rustling low and sweet,
As if an angel floated o’er;

They seem to me like friends I meet,

And love, then part forever more. 

The dreamy lull of limpid streams;

The azure haze that floats above,
Enshroud earth as mysterious dreams,
O’er all our spirits softly move. 

Spirit of dreams! oh, I would bless

Thy soft luxurious charms for aye,

And fold thee in my soul’s caress,

Now and forever till I die!

Oh, chide me not! the low wind rhymes,

Full many a plaintive trembling lay,

And I could listen to her hymns,

Till I had breathed my life away. 
-- from Godey's _Lady's Book_, October 1855. 

Well, it looks like I'm resurfacing again after a few months away.  I moved two times since I last posted, started the new school year with a new classroom, a new teacher, and a new grade level in my after-school shift, and I've been asked to teach a new enrichment class in January, which will entail writing 6 weeks' worth of new curriculum!  It's all good, but it's exhausting!

I'm in a living situation where I can cook and sew again, so I hope to be posting more often about that; I'm starting to gather ingredients for my holiday baking, and I've been working on some costume projects again, so look for posts later this month.  The San Francisco International Tea Festival is coming up next weekend, so I'll be posting about that as soon as I get it written up.