For some reason or
other, I got to thinking about something I used to see in a newspaper every year
when I was a little girl back in Rome, Illinois. We took the Peoria paper, but
on Sunday Dad usually went "uptown" to Chillicothe and bought a copy of the
Chicago Tribune which had marvelous funnies. The Katzenjammer Kids, Fritzy
Ritz, and Brenda Starr. Wow, a bonanza. (Brenda may have been in the Peoria
paper, but that's neither here nor there. I loved her especially when there
were paper dolls!!) I could recall seeing in a supplement to the paper a
cartoonlike picture of a cornfield in the moonlight with dreamlike visions but
couldn'temember exactly what it was like. I knew it was very fallish and
sweet.
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| So, a little while ago I decided you can find anything
on the internet - and started putting phrases in the search box. I tried
"cornfield in the moonlight", etc., and did get some pictures that did fit the
description but not the one I remembered. Then a phrase popped into my head -
Indian Summer - and lo and behold up came the top picture with the address of a
blog my-over-the-fence.blogspot.com/2010/09/injun-summer.html and I went there to find "Injun Summer", my picture -
two of them - that I remembered from so long ago. This really is a "piece of
my past" and conjurs up memories of the fall in Rome (Illinois, that is) in a
much simpler time. There was an orchard behind our old house and I can still
remember the smell of apples that were frozen on the trees and how wet the long
grass was when you walked through the orchard. Read more about Injun Summer on
My Over the Fence blog. (I did this post originally in November of 2010 - thought it might be a good time of year to bring it forward) |
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