This week the Roundup is hosted by the talented Laura Purdie Salas at her blog, Writing the World for Kids. She’s celebrating the inclusion of four poems in the new J. Patrick Lewis anthology with National Geographic. She shares one of them, a beautiful piece about finding peace in nature in Northern Minnesota. Stop by and check it out!
Nix the comfort zone 
Looks like you and I are both biding summer goodbye, Molly. May I capture your image poem for Abundant Autumn Gallery? It is the right size. I used one of your summer image poems for the Mini-Gallery I am sharing at PF tonight.
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With the odd swings in temperature, it’s been a lingering goodbye to summer here. The leaves are beginning to cover the lawn, but there are still quite a few blooms in my garden. Add temperatures in the high 70s and low 80s and it’s all quite confusing!
You’re welcome to use this image poem in your gallery. Thanks for considering it and for asking! I’ll look forward to enjoying your mini-gallery later today.
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This is beautiful, Molly! I love the fuzzy blur of autumn colors behind the shapr beauty of the flowers. Your poem captures it perfectly:>)
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Thanks, Laura. The leaf colors are reflected in water, though you can’t tell that from the photo. Thanks again for hosting!
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Really lovely, Molly. Is that possibly snow in the background? If not, the idea of it with the really light color adds to the goodbye to summer feeling. I miss summer so much. But, I am enjoying the first kinda crisp day here. Won’t mind autumn a bit!
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Ack!!! No snow! lol It’s actually churned up water foam from a small waterfall. The leaf color is reflected on the water.
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What a pretty and sweet farewell, Molly. I love seeing your photographs pop up in others’ posts over the last couple weeks or so, too!
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Thanks, Michelle. I love how Linda has responded to some of my photos! Such fun to be a small part of someone else’s creative process!
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Wow, Molly! You are quite the photographer!
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Thanks, Diane. I really enjoy taking pictures–gets me outside and often inspires me to write. Win-win!
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Those roses sure are surprising sometimes as they erupt amid the fall colors! Love it!
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My rugosas still have blooms as do my hollyhocks and phlox. I also have a new round of globe thistles emerging. What a crazy year!
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Sorry to see those beach roses say goodbye, along with the rest of summer. We’re getting our first frost tonight, so I suppose autumn really is here, after all.
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We had a dusting of snow this past week and over 60 today. It’s a seesaw kind of fall!
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Perfect pairing of photo and words! (I wrote about autumn this week, too!)
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Thanks, MaryLee. I loved your zeno!
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Gorgeous image Molly and rich haiku to accompany it, thanks! I sure love still seeing those roses…
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Thanks, Michelle. I’m amazed there are still roses blooming!
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