Autumn Maple Leaves
Izabella Godlewska de Aranda

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Then, when the maples have burst out into color, showing like great bonfires along the hills, there is indeed a feast for the eye. A maple before your windows in October, when the sun shines upon it, will make up for a good deal of the light it has excluded; it fills the room with a soft goldenglow.

........ .. From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs