The only wonderful thing about the colder mornings are those mists! Magical! They form and cover the lake, floating off, up, blown to the sides, always different! I bundled up and sat drinking my coffee watching them wander about after photographing the view! Of course the canoe has to get in on the shots as well! Duh!
…and it kept getting better!
I am dreading Winter, honestly, I am a tropical whimp! But this, is worth staying for:) Everytime the temperatures are going to dip into the low 1’s and 2’s or below…yikes, please not yet, we get these amazing fogs and mists. Groot is getting very excited when I get up this early…snacks! Yeah! Often it takes awhile for the fog to burn off, slowly lifting, the other day in wild vertical shafts, all to do with wind and temperature I’m sure…ask a weather man!
Then that blue sky and clouds! Sigh…
You can see the trees are bare in front, sad face:( I went for a walk to see the colours I could still find. The oaks are just turning and where there has been water more leaves are still hanging on! Looking up, backlit by the sun, wow!
I wanted to lie down on the ground and get a shot straight up the trunk, but after venturing in a few feet to see what it might look like, I looked down at my pants legs and then proceeded to pull three ticks off…so no to lying down right now! Don’t get me started on how fond I am of ticks..0_0…
Every turn in the road was a new surprise, milk weed seeds, fire red oak leaves. The spots of the road near rock on the hills, the trees are almost all bare, less water, less resilience. The evergreens look well though so hopefully they have fared better.
Heading out the straight stretch and then looking back:) Sweet! Down at the remains of the swamp the milkweed seeds are starting to pop! Off they go in the breeze! Floating along, may need a a beautiful assistant to hold them up and give them a shake, I can photograph the seeds as they float away! Ha! Mike? Where are you?
Next walk;)
Not sure where the first half of October went. I was thinking of my sister today, it’s her, was her, birthday. She passed a while ago, cancer. Makes me think hard and appreciate the little things she was not able to.
When you can go from sunrise, to moonrise…wow…what a treat! I am grateful, but still a termagant;)
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron”
The little Red canoe has some exciting news! It needs it’s own press agent;) It’s going to be the cover shot of the Rideau Valley Conservations 2026 calendar. Also Mr. July! Whoa! What’s cool is the land to the right of the pines/island IS Rideau Valley Conservation land! It, the canoe, wants new bumpers, a wax job and more…Ha! We get a free calendar and a parking pass to all their recreation areas I told it so button up, callarse la boca, whatever! Woohoo!
That view out the window makes my morning, sometimes earlier than others. Colour, get the hell up to watch a bit, drag myself out of a warm bed, bathrobe, shoes, especially if there is frost…Then…Hello! Pink and fog…trot off for the camera…down to the dock, two shots…”Change the battery” light…sigh…You idiot Stimpy! Check these things first!…back to house, 65 steps up and down and up again, who needs to exercise? (Price of a beautiful view!)…That colour can fade very very quickly!
By the time I’d gotten back to the house, changed the battery and hot footed it back to the water it was fading, but still beautiful! That colour…I’ll take what I can get;)
We may be looking at a real frost tonight…it’s barely touched us so far. The basil is still flowering! It was 1.9°C this morning. Closer to the lake it’s colder, the stairs had some frost last week, but not up higher. Time to get the mitts and hats out…and socks. I hate socks…sigh.
I’ll leave you with the moonrise from the 6th. Harvest moon, pink moon, whatever the media has come up with to call it, it’s a full moon folks, don’t get too jargony on me! Ha! It was later than I thought but well worth standing there:) Saludos amigos. Time to start watching for Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). Maybe I’ll just call it Comet October if I can see it and photograph it! Ha! No offense Mr. Lemmon:) or is that Mount Lemmon. I’ll ask a astronomer;)
I just heard the swans honking so time to go out and have a look! Hasta pronto! Maybe some milkweed seeds blowing in the wind next week! Or furry donkeys…both, absolutely wonderful!