Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine.
Rainer Maria Rilke
View from inside a small cave in Missouri at Meramec State Park
October
Old the year grows,
Casting aside her green cloak,
Twirling in lingering twilight -
Offering her final fruits.
Blustering winds bend her limbs,
Enervating darkness calls her to sleep-
Rocking her bones into winter deep.
Hundreds of white pelicans and cormorants traveling together in Oklahoma
A broken tree cradles the moon at Sequoyah State Park in Oklahoma
Wheat tips bending toward the sun in Texas
Ariadne, the banded garden spider, basking in the light of the rising sun in Azle, Texas
The hunter’s moon descends beneath the trees in Texas
Leaves and twig reflecting in a still pond in Pier Cove, Michigan
Milkweed letting go of her feathery offspring
Autumn Glory of Ox-Bow and lake Michigan beyond from the Crow’s Nest Trail in Saugatuck
A few feathers wave good-bye to the sun and October on the Lake Michigan Shore in Fennville
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
Friedrich Nietzsche
October is a month for classical music. For running into a gale force wind. For flying kites and watching scary movies and eating popcorn by the fire. It is one of my favorite months for the colors and the smells and the winds of change.
This October turned into a beautiful but busy month of travel and events and my intention of blogging twice turned into not even once; well as I write it’s still October, Halloween, in fact, but you won’t receive this until November 1st.
I hope your October was as amazing as mine. The unusually warm weather made it possible to be outdoors so much more than usual, and I got to visit my family in Texas which always makes me happy.
Thank you so much for being here! I will see you in two weeks. Really!! 😊
A Halloween treat for the squirrels - carved heirloom pumpkin