The leaves start to fall…

Marilyn Monroe in Red…

“Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.” Marilyn Monroe (Any Fall color would have been fine Marilyn) NW Portland

chill in the air, leaves changing…

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”  Albert Camus

peaceful, easy feelings

Oregon Coastal river early Fall….soon the Fall rains will come and the river will rise at least 3 feet…the salmon and Winter steelhead will work their way upstream.

Bittersweet end…

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slant of yellow light.”  Paul Monette, Borrowed Time

Very busy this Fall…

The squirrels are as busy as I have ever seen…digging up my flower beds, planter boxes and pots, ravaging the trees of seedlings and finding walnuts from who knows where, peanuts from the adoring neighbor ladies…planting here , digging up over there…some view them as a pest, nuisance, likable rodent. I don’t mind them so much.

 

Changes in the air…

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Humbert Wolfe