“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
When I woke up, I checked outside my bedroom window and saw sunlight. The world appears to be aglow. The leaves are patterned with light and shadow and are moving just a bit in the slight breeze. The sun has moved into its autumnal phase and has a cooler light. I stood on the deck for a bit, watched Gracie in the yard and took in the sun but wished it were warmer.
Gracie and I are going to the dump today. It will be crowded. I figure the rain of the last three or four days kept people away. I know I chose to stay home and just kept adding trash to the trunk. I still have one more bag and some newspapers. It will be a monumental dump run.
Nothing much is happening. The only people I saw this week were cashiers. The phone was my chief means of communication with family and friends. Nothing much was happening with them either. Either we are all quite boring or we are just slowing down to get ready for the oncoming winter, the inside season.
One branch of leaves on one of the trees in the backyard is orange. None of the other leaves have changed so this stands out among many. I wonder why.
When I was a kid, I loved the leaves changing color this time of year and never really cared why. It was enough for me that they were beautiful and so many colors. I knew the shadows of trees and the shadows of my friends and me on our walks to school would be different somehow, but I never cared why. All of it was part of the landscape, a part of the changing season and that was enough for me.
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October 5, 2014 at 12:05 pm
Nothing much happens here either, I guess it’s just that time of year when things slow down. I would hybernate if I could until March when the days are longer and the spring won’t be far away. Ok, I would wake up around christmas, I wouldn’t want to miss Disney 🙂
We have one Maple here that have has one big branch where all the leafs turn colors long before the rest of the tree does. Always the same branch and always weeks before the rest of the tree 🙂
Sunny and warmish here today, the wind blew so hard that iot was hard to feel if it really was warm. I mowed the lawn for the last time this year, I hope and did the laundry, that was about the most exiting thing happening today 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
October 5, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Christer,
It’s a good thing the two of us are content with little going on around us. In my head I’m thinking a party or two might be just the key to making the winter a bit more exciting. I’m thinking Hawaiian in the middle of a dark winters night.
I wonder why we have these odd branches. I don’t really care though as mine is so pretty.
Last night it rained so I was happy to see the sun this morning. Now I want everything to dry so i can close down the deck.
Have a wonderful evening!
October 5, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Hawaiian sounds perfect 🙂
October 5, 2014 at 1:14 pm
I thought so too. Hawaiian shirts are not optional!
October 5, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Hi Kat,
Re the lone orange branch; ya gotta start someplace? 🙂
Most likely that branch does not get as much sun or is in a colder microclimate or has an insect or condition that causes it to shut down production earlier.
I can still recall the moment I was looking at a particular orange leaf on a tree when I actually saw the base of the leaf detach itself, hang by a thread for a nanosecond and then fall in the timeless autumn way. I was awestruck. I’d seen plenty of leaves fallING but I’d never seen that. It was cool.
Nothing much happening here. Piki Dog got me up around 5 AM because he was poking around in everything. I thought he needed out but he didn’t. While I was waiting for him to decide, I noticed Orion’s Belt in the sky right overhead. It used to make me sad when I saw that in the predawn sky on my way out the door to work. It meant winter was coming. Now it just means that I’m out of bed too damn early. But I can go back so it doesn’t bother me at all anymore. 🙂
Today’s errand is a trip to the Apple store because I need new chargers for my laptop and my iPod nano but I don’t know which model of either. The website is unhelpful so I need a human interpreter.
Enjoy the day.
October 5, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Hi Caryn,
That branch has lots around it so maybe the insect theory is the best.
It was very cool, and I would have loved to watch it. I have seen leaves right below the branches from which they fell and have followed them with my eyes to the ground, and I thought that was cool.
Once in a while I get up around 5 or 5:15 to go to the bathroom, and I think about all those years when I got up at that time to get ready for work. Like you, I now just shrug off the memory and go back to bed.
Just the dump for us today. Peapod is coming late today, and that’s it for the whole day!
Have a great Sunday!
October 5, 2014 at 12:54 pm
October 5, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Gnu,
This is the most imaginative video especially from inside the snow globe.
October 5, 2014 at 1:08 pm
POINT TO PONDER
Wht doesn’t the news ever tell of majpr earthquakes in Anartica ?
October 5, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Gnu,
Maybe because there are no people dying and no destruction of houses.
October 5, 2014 at 1:45 pm
In music news… Paul Revere (real name!!!) is dead at 76. Obit and videos at the link.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/raiders-leader-paul-revere-dead-at-76-20141005
October 5, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Paul Revere Dick.
I loved that band. 🙂 They were so much fun to watch.
I didn’t know he was that old.
October 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm
Caryn,
I didn’t know how old he was. I am never good at ages, but I am surprised he was 76.
I loved that band too.
October 5, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Im6
I am amazed that Paul Revere was part of his name. I really liked them and their outfits as flamboyant as they were.
October 5, 2014 at 5:32 pm
A map of:
http://www.ontarioparks.com/fallcolour
Cheers
October 5, 2014 at 5:39 pm
minicapt,
So much is already in fall colors, some of them even peak. The news says the cape will be peak by late October; of course, peak means reds on the oaks.