The colors at our cabin in northern Wisconsin have almost reached their peak, and it has been an exceptional autumn. At times I find myself overwhelmed by the beauty, and start to take it for granted.
Autumn Up North
Canopies touched by Midas
and courts of Crimson King maples
sidle up to evergreens,
flood the color cones in my eyes.
Like gorging on chocolate truffles
the pleasure recedes the more I consume,
turns common as penny candy
or hum-drum as the trees back home.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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