December: All Bundled Up

Welcome December!

With such a late Thanksgiving, December took us by surprise.

Well.  Me at least! heh.

December

by John Updike

First snow! The flakes,

So few, so light,

Remake the world

In solid white.

All bundled up,

We feel as if

We were fat penguins,

Warm and stiff.

The toy-packed shops

Half split their sides,

And Mother brings home

things she hides.

Old carols peal.

The dusk is dense

There is a mood

Of sweet suspense.

The shepherds wait,

The kings, the tree

All wait for something

Yet to be.

Some miracle.

And then it's here,

Wrapped up in hope-

Another year!

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December memories....

Last year Katie and Karen decorated for me.  I think I really liked that tradition!!!

I am slowly switching the decorations over from fall to winter.  Slowly.

Yoohoo.  Katie and Karen!!!

Encourage One Another,

Donna

Chicago Tribune Fall Tradition

This cartoon is about the only thing I remember from my childhood newspaper reading!

(Except, of course, the sports section, Chicago Blackhawks articles.)

But, truly, I watched for this cartoon each fall and loved to study the landscape change from haystacks to teepees....smoke to the Indians.

It just fascinated me.  

It's older than I realized, 1907, and it is not run in the paper any more.

You can read all about it if you're interested in the link below.

 

Learn the history behind the famous cartoon:Injun Summer

Reminiscing,

Donna