Yesterday, our friend, Sharkey, posted some fall foliage colors on her blog. The images are delightful. Our secondary road is enough south of her that we are a few days behind in the color tour.
Nevertheless, it sent me to the front deck this morning. That’s where I get a view of some of the first trees in the neighborhood to go through the transformation. Here’s the wide view:
Neighbor, Bob, Cut hay last week and Sylvia power washed the decks. Their combine actions seemed to bring on rain. It’s finally dry again. Hay can dry and, if this weather holds, we can seal the decks. Back to the color.
It’s not much, but it’s the best we can do for now. It’s scenes like these that bring joy and contentment to those that live in this house.
To my eye, that red on the left looked brighter. Oh well . . .
Yesterday’s Sighting
Last evening, as I was getting supper ready, my eye caught sight of the red-tail hawk sitting on a power pole. He’s been a regular visitor recently. This time, he looked especially great in the fading light.
I went to a window and slowly lifted the blinds. My plan was to go for the camera next. However, as I finished lifting those blinds, he dove from the pole toward the ground. Prey? He was half way to earth when the strangest thing happened. He seemed to split in two with one side going right and the other left. Yes, it was a pair of red tails. From my vantage point they appeared as one until they split apart.
The hawks turned to fly in the same direction, side-by-side. I wish you could have seen it too.
Ah I did miss your blog. I have had many, many surprising changes in my life. They’re not over yet, but I’m dealing. Good and bad but I def. am not doing much blog hopping lately. I have thought of you several times though. 🙂
For me, my faith is my rock so I know despite the uncertainty now that the future is still bright. Happy to see those leaves changing. We don’t have that here in Florida, but I’m still so happy to be back. It truly does feel like home for me. 🙂
Hugs to you and Sylvia and thanks for the blog visit!
I had hoped that we might meet while you were in Michigan. Glad you are happy in Florida. For us Michigan is home, and it felt great when we were able to return after an extended absence.
FWIW, I use Feedly (RSS online reader) to keep up with fellow bloggers. You might check that out.
Sylvia joins me in extending warmest greetings to you. May your faith hold firm that it may protect you in the storm.
I had really hoped to meet you and Sylvia as well. It could still happen though, we’ll be traveling to Ohio regularly, I have family and friends there. And that’s not too awful far from Michigan. 🙂
Big thanks you both for the warm greetings and kind thoughts.
It is good to hear from you. Perhaps we’ll have that meet someday.
Colors seem slow here this year. Nothing beautiful to report yet. Maybe it was the dry end-of-summer and we won’t get the spectacular colors?? I don’t know. We will see. We did see some softer colors on our ride through the Ozarks this past weekend.
Cool story about the hawk(s)! I’ll bet that sort of freaked you out when you saw it split!
Frogs are hunkering down here. We are getting ready to shut down the pond for winter and cut back the plants. I keep pretending winter is not coming. :haha:
Usually, it’s rain that washes color out autumn leaves. At least that’s what I’ve been led to believe.
It was [to me] spectacular when it “split.” I saw that same pair this afternoon.
It’s good that you are prepping for the coming season. Really like you pumpkin patch post. I prefer the warm dry weather to winter. I’m not [yet] ready to move to Arizona, however.