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Summer Calls

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I meant to do my work today

But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,

And a butterfly flitted across the field,

And all the leaves were calling me.

And the wind went sighing over the land,

Tossing the grasses to and fro,

And a rainbow held out its shining hand…

So what could I do but laugh and go?

-Richard le Gallienne-

About Ilona Erwin

I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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  1. TC says

    Lovely poem. And I went too, not much laughing though, weeding is a chore I don’t get much out of. ;~P

  2. Ilona says

    🙂 It fit the day, but I am now hard at work weeding my garden, too! Then, as soon as I take a break from this hard work I will be blogging more earnestly again….

    all in a days work I guess you might say