In Honour Of The Season

There's just no denying it any longer. Autumn is here in all it's colourful glory.

The trees are turning and what's more is that every time we have even a little wind the leaves are falling in droves.  I took a walk under the silver moon last night and the crunch of the newly fallen leaves beneath my feet reminded me that as often as I sharpen my nails, I can no longer hang on to summer. However, I do think this year Mother Nature is giving it a good effort!  The weather around here for the last few days is decidedly warm and balmy.  It makes me think that winter will be upon us soon since I'm sure that we are actually getting an early Indian summer. My Dahlias, which got hit in spring with a late frost, surprised me and came back just in time to bloom when all other flowers were dying off. They look glorious and initiated the new header at the top of my blog....

...you can see that I have been working on my pin loom squares for the ramie table cloth. It just looked so lovely together that I couldn't resist putting the picture here.

Each morning I get up to Autumn's golden glory. I am surrounded by golds and greens and oranges and browns with hints of red in the under brush.  A walk through the woods is filled with scents of rotting vegetation and fermenting berries which the birds are enjoying immensely. I see drunk birds regularly. The bats have left for the year as their diet of insects dies away, and geese fly low on the river following it to the mountains where they will turn south for another year. The horse is frisky in her pasture and runs about with her tail held high.... but I never seems to be able to capture her in a picture.

The dogs arise each morning ready to frisk in the early morning coolth

and Little Monster strolls around the yard as if she has done it for a long time (she was only born in the spring)...

She pounces here and there looking for mice, attacking the pooches bums and climbing trees, and catches the last of the moths and butterflies munching on them as if they were a buffet placed there just for her.  Her mother is not so lucky as she is in jail awaiting the time of her spaying.

After a walk out the driveway last night with the leaves crunching under my feet....

notice the leaves on the ground....

 ..... I sat out till almost 11p.m. watching the aurora borealis in the light of the almost full moon. It was truly glorious and made me feel big... like how great it is to be a part of this wonderful world and at the same time small.... like how insignificant we humans are in all the surrounding glory....

Now the harvest begins...

Daughter #1 picked crab apples with a friend and brought home a barrel... I've pulled some of the carrots and they are as tasty as can be. I think I showed those to you all a few days ago. Then a friend came by with a sack of potatoes from their garden... Yukon Golds and they are delicious.  I must remember to grow them next year.  There are no blueberries this year, though, due to dreadful amounts of rain in the spring that knocked the blossoms off before they got started... which I find is just too sad.  So anyone out there who would like to send us some blueberry jam from Newfy would make it to the top of our favorite people list in very short order. : )

Teapot is having a quick cup of tea before he heads out to put the new tin roof on the electrical shed which is a job that has needed doing since 2008 when we did the renovation on the house.... at least that is how long we have had the tin sitting on the ground measured and cut and ready to go on. I will be helping him as he will need help... So that is our agenda for the day... it seems like a very normal autumn day.... busy in a good kind of way.

Hope you like the new look of my blog which of course is in honour of the season.