What a glorious time of year! I've heard so many people in our area say they've never seen such distinct, vivid colors in the trees and shrubbery as there are this year. So many more splotches of red where red has not shown up before. What's with that? Even our own driveway, which boasts not one maple tree, is showing reds with the yellows and oranges along with the various shades of green.
We had a heavy thunder, lightning and rain storm last night just after dusk that dropped a full inch of rain on us in a very short time. I feared I would wake this morning to the trees stripped bare of leaves, but am happy to see that's not the case at all.
We still have pumpkins strewn about their patches in the garden, and yesterday we had a visit from three very special boys we'd invited to come pick out a favorite pumpkin to take home and carve (not quite yet, but soon) as their own jack-o'-lantern.
The small dwarf apples trees (in their enclosed "cage") are coming along beautifully. The coloration of the apples is straight out of the camera. The apples on our big trees out in the open, however, are being pecked to pieces by blue jays. Sigh.
The ducks and chickens seem to be enjoying this misty morn. Looking closely in the center of this picture you can see Mama Chicken and her flock of thirteen "chicks" . . . who are actually ducklings. She's a good mother and doesn't care one whit if anyone tells her that here babies look a little "different."
It's curious so many bloggers have indicated in their recent posts that they are "so done" with summer this year. And, boy howdy, I'm right on the same bandwagon with them. This feeling of being ready for a change and to go on to another season may just have more to do with everything else that is going on in our country (and world) than simply moving away from summer heat and the plentiful outside tasks of the season. No elaboration needed on that.
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