Seasons Turn - Missoula, Montana

"But so the seasons turn, and so they must, by nature's own design. The fields must fall to fallow and the birds must stop their song awhile; the growing things must die and lie in silence under snow..."

- from The Winter Sea, page 365, by Susanna Kearsley

Work Diversion, Missoula, Montana

I Meant To Do My Work Today
by Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)

“I meant to do my work today -
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree…
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro….”

(Read the full poetic list of good excuses here.)