Musings

Both of us have felt like hanging around rather than adventuring across the peninsula to check on leaf colors, bear hunters and their dogs, Canada geese flocking, stream levels, and the like. It’s pretty here, no?

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I’m often amazed at how the photographic image from my phone differs from my live perception of the moment. What I saw—or focused on—was a small area of sunshine on the field at distant center. I can only barely see it here, when squinting. Instead the sky is menacing and grey, which I did not notice.

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I’m calling this Raggedy Susan. Not a doll.

Raggedy is symbolic of what is happening to summer here right now. Still very pleasant, and, also, this is the time of the summer when the mosquitos are absent—yay!

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I’m calling this a shadow selfie. Except my shadow, on the lower trunk, is vague. So, rather a failure. [Very warm early morning light—so golden and special—and enough that the shadow should be more obvious. And now, as darkness arrives, it’s lightly raining.

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Windless nights yield heavy dew, and, even if a wind kicks up when the sun comes, the grass stays wet for a long time. Backlit dewdrops are gems.

Despite most of the leaves still being green, a few have become dramatic harbingers of changes to come.

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Where we live when we are not here, we do not see sunsets unless we trek away from the house to a place with sky-view to the west. Which is neither easy nor super-close-by.

So, it cannot be surprising that I am enamored of the sunset views we can easily get to…if we leave this cozy-cottage, and walk just a few steps west. Where the sky is wide open and…can look like this.

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The blush is rising on the apples. And they’re getting sweeter.

The lupine pods have gone grey and exploded, dispersing their seeds.

Not all fall color is leaves.

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My device indicates it’s still waxing gibbous, yet it seems close to full.

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We strolled over the hill to catch the sunset. During our walk, we saw at least two dozen deer and heard sandhills. There was a breeze and, in general, the deer were slower than usual to notice us and vamoose. Or is it vadeer?

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You’ve heard of ice sculptures. These trees are sculpted by ice. BTW, that’s foam not snow.

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