I was quite proud of myself, because I managed to get their costumes completed the day BEFORE Halloween...no mean feat in this household these days. The only thing I made for Duncan's Woody costume was his cowhide vest, but Lily's Jessie required the yolks and cuffs, etc. to be added to a white shirt, chaps to be made, and a red yarn wig to be crafted. Dang it if they didn't come out pretty good! Go Mummy!
Squash in Blossom
How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is.
If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves
Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves,
The squash's are. In green the squash vine gushes.
The flowers are cornucopias of summer,
Briefly exuberant and cheaply golden.
And if they make a show of being hidden,
Are open promiscuously to every comer.
Let the squash be what it was doomed to be
By the old Gardener with the shrewd green thumb.
Let it expand and sprawl, defenceless, dumb.
But let me be the fiber-disciplined tree
Whose leaf (with something to say in wind) is small,
Reduced to the ingenuity of a green splinter
Sharp to defy or fraternize with winter,
Or if not that, prepared in fall to fall.
- Robert Francis (1902-1987)
