The Autumn Song

By Rick Blumenberg / @RickBlumenberg

Walking along Tanner Creek with Carol we took this picture to show you what a special place we live in. My blog for today is a song-poem I wrote years ago and sing often at this time of year. I call it The Autumn Song and this view of Tanner Creek reminded me to sing it again. I hope you enjoy

“The Autumn Song”.

Summer has its happy times

      and winter has it joys.

            Spring is like a melody in rhyme.

When I think of all the seasons

      that I’ve known since just a boy

            Autumn is that very special times.

So when I see the wild geese

      flyin’ overhead

            And feel the snap of Jack Frost in the air.

And I hear the band a playin’

      at the high school football game

            I know that it's time for county fair.

Chorus:

So When the Autumn comes

      and leaves are falling down

            I remember scenes of long ago.

Skippin’ through the fallen leaves

      upon the frosty ground

            Laughing down the lane to school we’d go.

I thank God for the colors

      and I thank him for the smells—

            Even smells of smoke from burning leaves.

But every day and every way

      I thank God for the earth

            And beauty He created with the trees.

I thank the Lord for falling leaves

      and autumn days of yore.

            I thank him even more for autumns now.

I thank him for the people

      that he’s sent to bless my life--

            Who love and serve him well and teach me how.

I'm Rick Blumenberg and that's 
                                  My View from Tanner Creek.