Saturday, October 11, 2008

signs, sights & smells of fall

smoke settling low over valleys from leaf burn piles and wood stoves...
Clifton Forge's Fall Festival next weekend...
ladybug swarms in Callaghan (including the 104...yes, 104 that we vacuumed up from the living room and bedroom walls & windows yesterday)...
georgeous, breathtaking glowing fall colors on mountains, up hollows, across valleys and meadows...
crunchy leaves underfoot....
late purple asters growing wild by roadsides, in fields, everywhere...
morning fog...
black walnuts (Andy swept thedriveway clean last evening, and this morning there were 42 'new' fallen nuts out there....not counting the one that dropped sometime yesterday, breaking the windshield of my Ford Escape. Grrrr.)...
deer by the dozens feasting on fallen apples...
crisp blue sky and 40 degree nights...
cozy sweaters...
apple butter simmering in brass kettles at church fund-raisers...

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