It’s the trees, apart from the pines, it’s that solid block of mottled gray once all the leaves are gone, almost gone. A few tenacious oaks and bushes are still hanging on, along with the ferns, how DO they do that?! I came across a fern leaf half alive, half dead…? “I’m not dead yet!” it was shouting! Alright, that was different! But no snow yet, I don’t want to jinx us! There was a possibility this morning, but no, just some light rain, much to the Mewberries dismay;) Ick…wet!
Two more days of hunting season before I can roam the road again. It’s been fairly quiet but maybe they are fair-weather hunters;) A girl can only photograph so many milkweed seed pods and raindrops with leaves and keep her sanity;) Wait, I may not be sane anyway;)
The birds have started to show up after a fairly quiet Fall so far! A few juncos and goldfinches among the chickadees, woodpeckers and jays! I found a nest among the branches, always fun to see what they are fabricated out of! Paper birch! Beautiful!
For colour, I’ve been relying on Mother Nature’s palette of sunrises and sunsets to keep me happy! She has NOT disappointed me! I do need to move a bit faster some mornings as the colour can fade so quickly! Tripping over cats, looking for gloves…ah, Fall.
Some mornings you just can’t tell! I’ve gone meh, and started to make my coffee…only to see a Van Gogh a few moments later splashed across the sky! Move it chica, down those steps! Faster! Ha!
For this! Wowza! As the sun rose, it hit the high clouds above…by the time I got to the canoe, it had started to fade.
We’ve had a few visitors to the lake…This family of Trumpeter swans arrived yesterday morning with two cygnets followed by three others, what looked like last years Trumpeter swans, troublesome teenagers, ha! They were quickly chased off by either Mother, or Father! Protecting their babies from misbehaving rufians!
I was sitting at the table when a dark shadow passed right over the roof of the house. At first, I thought it might be a Turkey Vulture, until I saw the bright white tail from behind as he descended! Missed getting that shot but he/she landed in the old pine across the lake.
I couldn’t believe the amount of cones the pine tree branches are carrying! I went in to get my tripod to do a handheld vs tripod shot but he/she took off down the lake before I could set up:)
We had a flock of Common Mergansers come by, but they stayed on the far side of the bay. Hoping they might move a bit closer, they are very skittish. So far the otters have been sneaky too, just leaving me fish-scale poops on the dock! Maybe when the sun comes out they will appear. We had some pretty amazing colour to the North East a few nights back!
…and some moody skies on Tuesday morning…you never know! Sometimes some colour squeaks through and you have to take that chance! I did give up as it started to rain! Bathrobe isn’t waterproof;) Coffee time!
I’ve put an order in for Aurora along with some nice sunshine but hey, not sure how much pull I have with the solar Gods up there;) Fingers crossed!
Today I’m taking a page from Rocket’s playbook and I will practice my very own loaf technique with him while lying horizontally! We have sun forecast tomorrow morning by the Clear Sky Chart, so we might have another amazing Fall sunrise and, as of Sunday morning I have only 1 day left of “I could get shot if I walked on the road” season:) Halle-f’ing-lujah! Saludos amigos!
