THE FARMSTEAD BEAUTIFUL 



awaken the sense of beauty in a massive and 

 lasting way, probably being more causative 

 of beauty delight on the whole than any of 

 Nature's bright colors are. My eyes may 

 be guilty of perjury, but they always swear 

 that November is as beautiful a month as 

 June. 



Sometimes and this is her second 

 method Nature dashes a great clump of 

 color into one of those neutral backgrounds. 

 This is illustrated by the sun against his 

 day sky or reflected in a broad surface of 

 water; an evergreen tree amid an autumn or 

 winter forest or standing alone on a stubble 

 or otherwise dun-colored field; poppies or 

 other bright flowers springing up after har- 

 vest; black, white, or red cattle roaming 

 the autumn prairie; the green trees against 

 the red rocks on western slopes of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Sometimes call this, if you will, Na- 

 ture's third method two sharply contrasted 

 bright colors are brought together in about 

 equal masses. A butterfly's wing shows 

 this scheme; so do the leaves and flowers 



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