"Outsiders" Flashback

Remember little Ralph Macchio & the guy that played Ponyboy (I forget his name) in the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," that staple on the reading lists of 8th grade literature classes? Was chatting with a friend over a glass of wine last night and as we were looking at the Rittenhouse park scene outside the restaurant, it sparked a memory of that part where Ponyboy reads that Robert Frost to Ralph's character, Johnny:

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost

My friend and I were discussing how nice all the holiday lights looked in the park trees (see previous post), but I started thinking about how cheesy the sight of them would become if they were up all year. Everything inevitably just gets tired & old. The cold is bringing on the cynicism. (Acutally, the weather has been extremely fair these past few days, supposedly 60 F tomorrow!)

Trying to stay gold...& out of the cold...