Sunday, October 12, 2008

Embers, woodsmoke, well house, reading!

Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow Home

Teatime comes early at Stillmeadow now. I hang the kettle over the embers, bring out the toasting fork, and open the sweet-clover honey.
When the air is blue with haze and smells of woodsmoke and the sun is gentle and dreamy, I sit on the terrace by the old well house and read, turning the pages slowly and most of the time just sitting.

-Stillmeadow Calendar

4 comments:

Shelley said...

Lovely quote...thank you...from another Gladys Taber fan.

Shelley
http://groups.msn.com/StillmeadowFriends

alison said...

Thanks, Shelley!

I just looked at your favorite books section in your profile and am going to check out the authors you listed. :)

Happy Autumn!

Nan said...

Wonderful! When I saw the title I thought of your kids, thinking they had been sick and now were well. That Shelley's a great woman! Have you read her column in the Friends of GT journal??

alison said...

Hi Nan,

I didn't realize she was "that" Shelley! Thanks for pointing it out!