Walk in the Park

Scenes from a walk in the park on Monday. This first shot is a combination of 2 exposures. It's hard to get both the sky and the tree the way you want them to look so just for fun I combined them together.

Looking In

It was too nice of a day - Spooky wasn't sure if he really wanted to come in.

Rising Moon, second night

It looked so great the first night, I went back to see the moon rising the second night, and caught a few pictures of the mill at sunset too.

Lots of Leaves, Plenty of Pods

It's a beautiful day out there today, a brilliantly lit 76 degrees. Little by little the leaves are going away. We have a locust tree and unlike the preferred podless locust trees for landscaping, somehow we ended up with this one which grows pods, many, many pods, and it was prolific this year. There are thousands of pods -- plenty of squirrel food for those little young ones that I can see even now chasing each other back and forth across the garage roof. Most pods have already fallen and made six big piles that I raked up.
Many of the yard flowers are still blooming. The rabbit brush bushes are still flowering but the butterflies that once hovered over them are now gone since the frosts. Soon there will be thousands of rabbit brush seeds to stick to every jacket ( including mine) that happens to brush past them.

Hunter's Moon

Tonight is the full moon, and I caught it rising over the sugar mill on the way to the rec center. It's called the Hunter's Moon - the first full moon after the Harvest Moon. No clouds - the sunset just faded away. Too bad it will be gone by Halloween.

Fall is still charming

We got a real freeze the other night. That means the garden finally froze and died. There are some sad looking tomato plants out there wilting and turning brown. The ash leaves are long gone but now the other shrubs are turning color. We had snow on Sunday - it didn't stick but the flakes were giant and luxurious. Soon the time will change again and darkness will fall even earlier in the evening. I am not looking forward to that, but we'll get some great autumn sunsets maybe.

Fall has fallen

The endless summer finally started winding down, leaves starting to turn at last. Only one frost so far though.