next spring’s gold
by Elouise
next spring’s gold
stuffed in brown trash bags
waits curbside
This morning I was out and about doing stuff that needed to be done. On the way home I couldn’t help noticing all the leaf-bags lined up curbside, waiting for a ride to the dump. Just before entering the dump, there’s a place to deposit dead leaves or other acceptable yard waste. Then, next spring, anyone living in the township can drive over and get a truck or van load of the stuff. Free.
So there’s my haiku for today, along with my short if not spectacular take on it. Plus one other thought. What’s true in nature is also true in our lives. What you or I most want to get rid of might be one of the greatest gifts we’ve ever received. Especially if it looks like dead or rotting leaves.
Elouise♥
© Elouise Renich Fraser, 29 December 2017
Photo found at palhwy.com
Telling the Truth 
How come you’re not buried up to the roof tops in snow like everybody else in the US of A, Snow so deep you can’t see the roof lines on some
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Hi, Brian! Sorry to disappoint you, but we live too close to the Jersey shore. Most of the time we dodge the bullets. That’s especially true for lake effect snow (Great Lakes), which seems to have done its worst of the season so far. For five years we endured harsh winters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The pits! Beautiful, if all you want to do is take pictures. But the beauty then becomes grime….not fun. The most we’ve seen since moving to this area in 1983 was a Northeaster blizzard that dumped about 3 feet of snow–which totally shut down the city and surrounding townships for several days. That’s my best answer for today! Who knows what we’ll get this season….:)
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I’m not disappointed Elouise I’m just surprised; I know down south in Florida they enjoy the weather much like we do, and imagined everything North of there as suffering from the winters snow. Yesterday evening I saw on the news the dreadful snow conditions in Louisville Ka, and I’m sure you’re much closer to the North Pole than the Rednecks in Bourbon country.
Then again Louisville (home of ‘The Slugger” I believe ) is much further inland.
Living in a vast island continent, that only gets snow in a small part of the south east of the continent, the high country know as the Snowy Mountains it is hard to imagine what it’s like in another large continent with such a difference in climates.
Australia is hot down south, and ‘bloody hot up north.; from East to West.
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Yes, Louisville is further inland. I’m happy not to be in a hot climate at this age, even though we’re getting unusually cold weather right now. We have a crazy New Year tradition here in Philly. the Mummers Parade. They voted today not to reschedule it, even though Monday will be way below freezing. But then again, the parade isn’t known for promoting sobriety or sanity! 😲
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I really like this take. 🙂
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Thank you, Herminia. I think it’s true–though not always beautiful until we figure that out! 🙂
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we use those bags often, but I don’t want them back….theres enough perpetual falling leaves on these oaks 🙂
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