A story:
Homemade Socks
The knitting needles followed their well-worn path, row after row. Donna knew the pattern by heart. Ribbing at the top, cables down the leg and over the top of the foot. She used the same grey yarn for every pair. She spent countless hours knitting the socks and donated them to various homeless shelters.
One cold winter night at a shelter, a worker gave a troubled man a pair of Donna's socks.
As soon as he saw the pattern, tears filled his eyes. His mother always knit him socks in that particular pattern in that special shade of grey.
The fall foliage of the maple trees is flashy and bright and always welcome, but some other plants are beautiful in more subtle ways. The dogwood in this photo has lovely peachy leaves that bounce gently in the breeze.
The evening primrose goes a deep red. It reminds me of a Scottish tartan with the green, yellow, and brown.
The Solomon's seal changes to a buttery yellow. It keeps its arching form to give a nice structural focal point in the landscape.
Wood asters have delicate mauve flowers on their stiff stems. Every flower has slightly different colouring in the center and the petals come out at irregular angles giving the plant a quaint quirkiness.
A few of the pansies are still flowering after limping through the heat of the summer. They are always brightly coloured but their soft rounded petals give them a quiet feeling.
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