French Silver Art Nouveau Slide Locket Mirror Pendant Maple Leaf Moonstone and brings to mind dappled

and brings to mind dappled sunlight on a pebbley stream

They insisted they could see my ring from below

the British Empire extended to the ends of the globe

Around the shop we call them ‘Instant Ancestors’ and even if they’re not yours

Something borrowed and something blue

French Silver Art Nouveau Slide Locket Mirror Pendant Maple Leaf Moonstone and brings to mind dappledWe have a giant silver maple tree along our driveway. It is the first of our trees to show signs of life in the spring and the first to have its branch tips kissed with color when Summer hands September over to Autumn. Whether you call them, whirlybirds, helicopters or by their scientific name, samara, when they blow off of our big tree in the early summer and spiral down gently to the earth they are a sight to behold. The silver maple leaves on this