A Lovely Day

 A gift from the garden.

 Autumn is in the air this morning in my garden.

It is a lovely day.

The last day of summer.

Oh JOY of the season's changing.

A day to celebrate.

The Song of a Lovely Day

Of kitchen curtains blowing; of a bubbling kettle;

Of a yellow cat on an oaken settle;

Of the webs I'm brushing from a corner in the hall;

Of crimson roses climbing up a garden wall;

Of a beater whipping egg-whites to a froth;

Of a table set for tea with a linen cloth;

Of children's lilting laughter; of a broom's soft swish;

Of the first ripe strawberries in a crystal dish;

Of a morning's ironing and its crisp array-

Oh, of all the details of a lovely day,

I will make a song, dear, then when I am through

Will keep it for the singing, come evening, to you.

~Ethel Romig Fuller from Kitchen Sonnets