Flora Jane Thompson:
(née Timms; 5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947)
English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form—every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.
