October’s Bright Blue Weather
O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather.
When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And Golden Rod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
When Gentians roll their fringes tight,
To save them for the morning,
And Chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;
When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October’s bright blue weather.
O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October’s bright blue weather.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
This looks like it would’ve been a good post for Blue Monday.
Oh, Ellen! I just love your blog. I know I don’t always take the time to comment, but every post is interesting and fun and reflects your unique joy!
This was great! Happy October!
(Thanks, too, for all your encouraging comments!)
Such a beautiful collage!
A variety of color and texture – well done.
A wonderful collage and I really enjoyed that poem. Happy October.
Come up and talk to our Oct weather – it’s cloudy today 🙂
Gorgeous pictures!
I love your new formats Ellen
This is so cool. I just visited another blog with a collage of wonderful autumn images and a poem by Keats. Then to come here with and see your wonderful collage and poem by Helen Hunt Jackson, it feels like something is in the air. I love it!
Beautiful pictures — that blue flower is absolutely stunning!
A beautiful collage, I like the bright blue flower, a great start to October.
So pretty! You are the winner of my Fall Into Reading drawing for Deep In the Heart of Trouble. Email me your address and I will send it out to you!