Signs of Autumn (Post Them Here)

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Trying to understand the flattened and unflatteringly dull and dreary cargo of impassively discarded leaf litter that I'm delicately attempting to navigate along the sidewalk, I occasionally kick up piles of the crinkling crustaceans as I want some commotion from them, they lose all motivation when they flutter on down, that's all they ever wanted, to touch the ground like we all want to touch the clouds. I get a lot from observing leaves when they are imprisoned, I don't believe they should ever be released. I stroll along squinting suspiciously at every single scrunched up and wrinkled shape lying there all drained of vitality and shrunken, not reaching out from above, quivering in the sky, they are lying there content, it's sickening! They win the leaf lottery every year, it's a rigged game, autumn's abominably admirable grand arrival depends on their shallow sacrifices, it muscles on in once enough of the flimsy freaks have severed their twig-contracts and as poignantly poepathetically as the post man curbstomping your cat after he delivers a parcel, Mr Autumn is here to recarpet! Just because he uses your own doormatted doorstep as the scene of the crime, it don't excuse the distasteful din of it, in the parcel is schrodinger's cat, because it's gonna happen again next year!

Frost on the grass when I took my dog for a walk last night.

The days getting shorter.

First chance of frost tonight.

Turning the clocks back -- it's only 6:30 but it feels like the middle of the night.

Hearing the dry leaves fall off the trees as I took my dog for a walk.

Fog and drizzle.The understory of the woods is a brilliant golden,a good show of color from the young maples and beeches.
Lots of birds still migrating,several gaggles of geese went overhead yesterday.
Record breaking heat after the cold snap.It was 82 yesterday.
Smell of tannin in the woods.

Geese overhead at sunset. Light frost tonight, and a hard freeze coming Friday night.

A skim of ice around the edge of the farm pond.

The Pleiades in the evening.

The winter gulls have taken up their daily residence at the shopping center parking lot. That's a sign that autumn is coming to a close.

Bare trees,crows at the bird feeder, and Orion.

The sun glistening through the trees
floating leaves of yellow, orange, rusty-red
bright blue skies, a cool crisp breeze
Autumn is my favorite season

Wood smoke in the air.