Autumn leaves

[osprey_archer]

I'm back in my hometown, just briefly, and feeling vaguely surprised that it did not simply crystallize in summertime. The leaves are turning on some of the trees: the ash leaves turning yellow, and something in the backyard - a sassafras, perhaps? - shedding scarlet leaves on the late-blooming black-eyed Susans.

When I was little, my mom used to call the black-eyed Susans brown-eyed Jennies, after me - my eyes were not brown, but never mind - and we would wave to them from the sliding glass door as they bobbed in the July heat.

It feels early to me for the leaves to be changing; I still think it's August, somehow, but we've already reached mid-September. It's funny how time slips by.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

my eyes were not brown, but never mind

That somehow makes me laugh. But I get it! They are what you would be like if you had brown eyes ^_^

(I still mean to go back and read your most recent fic...)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think it was more based on the color of the center of the flowers - you couldn't call them gray-eyed or blue-eyed Jennies, because that would just be silly.

I think you will like the most recent fic when you get around to it. But don't worry about it; I also have a backlog of LJ entries and things that I'm meaning to read & respond to, and its not happening for a while...