The Pumpkin Queen - an ode to Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run:
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells...

John Keats

The Pumpkin Queen 

The Pumpkin Queen - available to purchase from the Bailey Alexander Gallery, Brighton.
Arch 46 - 47
Kings Road
Brighton BN1 2LN

Tel: 01273 724318
E:  fbailey@baileyalexander.co.uk