~MAGICAL OCTOBER~

October, the magical month... brilliant colors in shades of orange, red, and yellow paint the landscape...

 It is harvest time...farmers gather their crops... corn fields are chopped, pumpkins gathered, apple trees hang heavy with fruit..."we" drive back roads seeking red berries and bittersweet for window boxes  ...hydrangea blossoms  are hung indoors...

old friends are brought down from the attic...

  days are warm...evenings  cool...

the cricket's song is no more...in the darkness of the night the faint hoot of the Barred owl can be heard... 

such is life in the country...



beauty surrounds us...we give thanks... 

soon I am reminded...at some point... all these beauties will have to be raked...



UGH!!!