This is probably the last Monarch that will be visiting me this year.
Saw it just last week!
Seems like it was just last week....that the straight and curvy trees
were dressed in summer's green.
All the small white mushrooms have now turned brown
on all the dead trees and logs lying on the ground.
Spooky October images are easy to see...
On my walks....I found two in the trees!
The large funny rock makes my count three.
But...it was given to me...by my son Steve!
The cute happy face belonged with all these whites.
So did the hairy seed pod and the caterpillar with spikes.
That's one of five puffballs in front of my shoe...
and a little brown snail on a capsized mushroom.
More loveliness in White!
Bronson and Amanda will be married 4 months on November 2nd.
November 2nd for her Grampa and I ...will be "48" years!!!
After visiting her family here just this past week...
Today....Amanda returned to Washington State.
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The state of my field and yard is changing....
slowly but surely....the white flowers are fading....
.... leaves and acorns are falling....
the deer are foraging constantly it seems....
they know a change is coming!
My favorite paths and hillsides are carpeted brown.
I come acoss all shapes and shades of brown on my walks.
Saw a golden honey-like liquid on a web-like growth!
Sometimes....coming out of the woods after a walk....
I startle the deer....seen below....tail up....racing off.
Soon bcause of hunting season....
my walks will be limited to the field for awhile.
There are paths around the perimeter
and through the middle....down to the barn.
Just beyond the scarlet tree in the corner....
....lies an old cemetery of the 1800's.
I always pass the cemetery....
after walking under my favorite wild cherry tree....
on my way down the drive to Granddaughter Alivia's house.
Sometimes on my walks there...I take a shortcut over
a small wooden bridge.
It's another area I can walk in during hunting season.
The paths make a circle and go between these
two large old Oak trees.
Near the Oak trees just last week...I discovered this grouping
of mushrooms....like a secret Fairy Land.
On one very early morning walk....
I saw Alivia and a friend swinging....maybe even before their breakfast!
Alivia traced and colored the picture, which we sent to Amanda...
whom she loves and misses.
Alivia has now joined the Girl Scouts and they do fun things...
like camping out in cabins and will visit a pumpkin farm soon.
Just capturing the night moon, clouds in the sky,
a leaf speared by a blade of grass,
the colors of Autumn and a heart shape in the trees.
The colors of Autumn were very pronounced...
out behind the house just a week ago!
The season puts me in the mood for stuffing, salmon, squash...
rice, noodles, baked potatoes, cole slaw with apples, stirfries and fish!
I make large batches of breakfast muffins...
and freeze them for long term use.
Chocolate coated marshmallows, cranberries and almonds
fill an ice bucket and apple crisp is eaten warm from the oven.
See the triple layer whoopie pie...looks larger than it was...
but it was eaten by Granddaughter Katie!
Mine was only 2 layers of chocolate....but it was GOOD!
This is Katie and her boyfriend Mitch....
Katie lives just over the hill and through the woods....
that's a younger Katie under the no hunting sign in our woods.
I also made a younger 'her' pose in a tree stump once.
Mitchell is entering the U.S. Air Force in November.
Katie is going to college to become a nurse!
She eats lunch with us about twice a week.
The grandkids are growing and changing just like the woods.
The Summer greens have quickly turned to Autumn golds.
The winds are blowing....the leaves are falling....
and the ornamental grasses sway....
...and I'm enjoying what I may!
~♥~ Happy Autumn ~♥~
