Musings

Most of the trees we saw today were green and gold, with a minority bronze and red. Then we burst out of the rolling, heavily glaciated terrain, finally reaching the flats of southern and southeastern Ontario. I saw a few fields that had been newly cleared, with large brush piles, and lots of in-use farmland (as above). From there we pushed on to the Argenteuil region, and, it turns out, through it.

I am convinced that whatever color the leaves/needles we saw, they were attached to metric trees.

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We lost the brilliant skies in early afternoon as a cloud layer came in and cut the visual edge. Maybe, here, though, it’s partly the ecological destruction that Sudbury has been through.

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving!

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Today was a chores day, so I give you a picture from yesterday, of perfect almost-windrows of fresh-fallen leaves. More GORE-geous.

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Bright, sunny fall days are show-stoppers.

Today at noon we found Grand Marais sunny, breezy and 75°F. And we found a terrific spot on the bay to eat our cheese sandwiches.

Later, we helped out in the big apple squeezing adventure, where we pressed maybe 15 gallons—and stashed more apples for a later repeat undertaking. But not with me/us.

Great day!

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We escaped our chores for a quick run through the woods north of Danaher and McMillan. We found the light and the autumn leaves…delightful!

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The temp this morning was a teense cool but not truly cold, putting me in a quandary: to light the stove or not (there being no other heat, other than the oven, and I would have had to create something to bake). Part of the equation is the temperature (and the temps the day will bring), part is your anticipated activity. Let’s face it: another part is momentum (or its opposite partner, laziness).

I decided on a fire, and laughed as all the hustle-bustle of heading out to the wood pile, snapping kindling, marshaling newspaper, and constructing the multimedia pile in the firebox, of course warmed me up so that a fire seemed unnecessary.

I laughed.

Fifteen minutes later I was reading the latest New Yorker on Téo (the iPad) and sipping coffee (really cafe latte), and glad in my sedentariness that I had fired up the stove. I swapped out Téo for my other downstairs reading (still need to get this week’s issue of The Newberry News), Barfield’s Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History…a true mix of wake-up reading…. Between paragraphs, I looked out the window. Early on, the color in the nearby maple leaves looked almost lit from the inside before the sun was over the trees; later, the sunlight was lush and lovely.

The fire had been the right choice.

Oh, and, RIP Steve Jobs.

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To me, the beach looks vastly different when the dock is out. The best thing about this morning’s trek to the beach, though, was hearing the loon call as I snapped the shutter.

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I’m cheating a bit; this photo is from yesterday’s sunset—over Lake Michigan. Tonight’s was nearly as dramatic, but we weren’t at Lake Michigan, and the angle on the best sky-color wasn’t as good, so I’m nudging yesterday’s photo forward to, perhaps, overdramatize today’s reality.

Sometimes that seems like a super-rational thing to do.

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We’re moving north, and, yes, D, you are correct, we’re also moving into full fall color. And we are peeping!

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Today, we saddled up and toured SE Michigan, moseying in the sunshine down to Ann Arbor, to see my cousin. At the same time, we got to see her installation underway at The Clay Gallery downtown. We adored the orange/white-orange shino glaze she’s using….

We even got The Botanist to road-trip with us!

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