Sunday October 25, 2009

  

 

The Season of Falling Leaves

Thursday, October 22

 

 

I am trying to savor the beauty in our little piece of God’s world these days, because I know colored leaves are short-lived.

 

 

Many are already on the ground.

 

 

Most perennials are also coming to a tattered end for another season.

 

 

The majority of crops have been harvested – leaving open fields in our neighborhood.

 

 

The standing corn that is left, will be picked and shelled.

 

 

Farmers are busy preparing crops and buildings for winter.

 

 

I don’t remember ever seeing this big, yellow piece of equipment in our neighborhood before this year.  I saw it in Denny and Karen’s soybean field earlier in the day – so I expect it is a soybean harvester.

 

 

Decorative grasses are developing their fall and winter finery.

 

 

A few flowers survived the cold, frosty weather of a few weeks ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The leaves that fall to the ground…

 

 

…are giving Cerwin a secure job for the next few weeks.

 

 

The end result of the leaves from our eighty-plus trees.

 

 

Until these meet the same end – I am going to enjoy their beauty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a delight to walk under our tall trees, feel the crunch of leaves, and inhale the scent of fall in our woodlot.