Yummy Autumnal Daze

when you leave home in your childhood, ne’er returning until Fall after childbearing years, oh the hues kaleidoscopically whorl in your eyes. i’d nearly forgotten Oz, dreamlike leaves clipped on trees — dazzled us in Louisiana. we wanted to follow its trek to New Orleans. yes, we had the boogie board blues of Oahu, stirred by rapturous waves. but oh how we craved to drive off the island, and drive and drive, on and on... for miles at a time. we stopped to visit kith and kin, didn’t fall into the Grand Canyon even with three very small kids. we hearkened to Carlsbad with its alien eyes, the open sky inviting to all, then hiked the caverns with one daughter strapped to hubby’s chest, two more kids in tow. After these extremes the wonderland of trees red, gold and burnt orange — I Remember these! how had i forgotten, fooled by surf and turf — the swoosh of sirens rocking me to sleep, the witch of the West waving her wand, “and now my beauties, something with poison in it I think, with poison in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell… poppies, poppies, poppies will put them to sleep.” * we left the land of lush leis and ran right into yummy Autumnal daze. 9/8/3019 *Quote from the movie The Wizard of Oz