In nineteen different places today, all at once. The sky is blue, but winds are roaring up our valley making the birch leaves show their silver underbellies. By my computer on the bar in the kitchen are a row of ripe peaches. Outside hawks are calling. It's getting ready time: laminating folders and organizing books, every random hour spent at school in preparation for a new passel of kids. Also trying to find the right things to say to Bean so that he understands that our routine will be changing. We've had such a fun summer: taking rambling walks and playing on the back lawn. Here are some pictures from our walk yesterday evening.
Chicken coop in the evening light.
Goldenrod is waist high in the fields now.
Bean & his red wagon.
Wild grapes, ripening.
Slug love.
I love ferns.
Overgrown mailbox.
Bean in the green.
Jewel weed.
Autumn's first red.