Happy Monday. Beautiful fall weather all day, or so I heard. I spent it ‘neath the fluorescent lights.
Fall has a weird transcendent quality to it. I should get out there and enjoy this. Because winter is coming and you know what that’s like. But I have things I need to do inside. So I’ll get to it tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow! Good idea! Tomorrow! It’ll be beautiful out there, then, too. But it’s never long enough.
Because winter is always looming just out there, somewhere. Waiting to arrive, unwelcome, a few days too early and determined to leave much too late.
The signals aren’t much help, either. There’s a saying about corn, knee high by July. But there’s not a saying that says “How in the world did that happen? It’s just the first of September?”
And sure, it signals fall, but that just foreshadows winter. It’s impossible to shake.
Anyway, saw that corn field on my Saturday bike ride, near the end, after I’d given up. At least my shadow had a good ride.
And he should! He never does any of the work on the bike. He just lets me pull him along, shadowy wheelsucker that he is.
When I got in for the evening I took a walk in the woods. Something about having to spell the word fluorescent seemed to require it. Let’s take a look at a bit of nature.
This is just down stream from where I found that leaf.
And if you were standing roughly there and wisely looked in all directions, you would eventually find yourself looking up. And you would be justly rewarded.
But when you turned back around and saw the light cast by the sun skating away, you’d get another beautiful glimpse that made wading through the underbrush worthwhile.
I am not a botanist, which is a statement that should be plain and obvious every time I put a picture of a plant here. And because of this, each time I see this plant, I want to say it is something else. This week we’re calling it milkweed.
Look at the bark on this tree. How beautiful is this?
Same tree, just below eye level.
And just below that, and slightly around to the side, there’s this sign of a limb removal.
It’s pretty low on the tree, and that looks as if it was a big branch. Maybe kids climbed on it. Maybe it just got in the way.
And since it’s a beautiful autumn Monday, it is time to check in with the kitties.
Phoebe is happy with the changing weather. She’s lately getting more snuggly and it has not escaped her attention that blanket season is upon us once more.
She likes blanket season.
Poseidon is a cat for all seasons. I believe he was upstairs soaking up some window sunshine before I interrupted him here.
He would like you to know you interrupted him. And he wants to know why. It’s a fair question.
