Helent Hunt Jackson “By all these lovely tokens…” Quote with Watercolor Florals (September 2021 Patreon Download)

These printable PDFs were originally offered to my Patreon members in September of 2021.

From the original post:

We’re now in my favorite month of the year, which marks the beginning of my favorite season of the year! For this month’s Patreon downloads, I chose to go with a quote from a poem by Helen Hunt Jackson that welcomes fall while also extolling the virtues of the last of the summer, which I think describes September perfectly. Here is the full poem (called “September”):

The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
the grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather,
And autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
‘T is a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.

This month’s extra is a printable chore chart! I have found chore charts to be the best way to help my kids get into good habits. This matches the design of the free calendar download I release each year and has a little drawing of a person in the upper-right so the chart can be customized.