AUTUMN
T)EAR A XXL SHIRLEY, —The wind is cold and biting. There is no rain, the air is clear and the sun is shining; the gloss.v fig leaves are green and broad and sunshine-flecked outside the kitchen window. The brushy purple of the tea-tree clump blends with the greenness of the wind-swept hillface, and the willows by the creek are sadly brown and gaunt. Autumn is coming, summer is waning, but the end is not yet.
There are big russet and golden ranunculas in the garden, musky storks of soft mauves and pinks, and slender tiger lilies beside beautiful frail goldcentred belladonnas. There are furry peaches on the orchard trees, and rosy apples peeping from the greenness of the foliage. Tall pampas grasses and flax wave their green banners down by the creek. The fourteen happy calves frolic among the clover, and the yearlings look on with bovine expressions of superiority and placidity. Altogether, there is an atmosphere of late summer spiciness and pale sunshine in the air.—Love from Maureen Grace, M.B.Gr.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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