October 2, 1920 



HOKT 1 CULTURE 



SoO- 



GREY DAYS 



Sunshine is like smiles. It ripples. 

 It glorifies. Yet there is also a quiet 

 beauty in our grey days. Dull leaden 

 skies are gloomy, but how often the 

 grey clouds are woven in with yellow 

 lights or are a study of varying shades 

 of grey. 



Some flowers are beautiful under 

 grey skies or against grey rocks 

 ij'hich lose their soft charm under 

 bright blue skies, amidst green grass 

 and trees: — the red bud or judas tree, 

 firoweed. Joe-Pye-weed, and some of 

 the sedums. Here in America we have 

 not the old stone ruins of abbeys and 

 castles, but they are often more beau- 

 tiful under grey skies than under 

 blue, they seem to add to the feeling ot 

 romance, the thousht of other days 



I'nder a grey sky we often see more 

 detail to the landscape than under the 

 glare of the sunshine, and the colors 

 are more marked. A field of golden- 

 rod against purple hued hills with 

 dark pines and spruces under a 

 grey sky with some old stone- 

 walls crossing the fields, is a picture 

 which makes our New England dear 

 to us. Such a field is like a gentle 

 woman who does not sparkle with 

 gayety, but is good to go to for peace 

 and rest and conrfort. It is the charm 

 of the subdued quiet ways of life. 



M. R. Case 



Hillcrest Gardens, Weston, Septem- 

 ber 15th, 1920. 



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