We looked around us and saw the roadside decorated with asters of many species and varying shades. Across the valley we could see on the far hillside the shining red patches that told us, even at that distance, which were the Sour Gums among all those trees. The sumacs were tipping their leaves with scarlet and the Flowering Dogwoods were turning a deep crimson. Autumn was on the premises, but who had seen it coming over the horizon?
John Kieran in Footnotes on Nature with wood engravings by Nora S. Unwin.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, 1952.
(John Kieran--August 2, 1892-December 9, 1981)
