~ Autumn ~

Dawn takes her sweet time to arrive, these chilly mornings

we wake up to dark night skies

The view from my kitchen window

  "Huckleberry mountain"

as it rises from Glacier Park

Getting used to the new routine...eating breakfast with the light on

 The last of the Echinacea still barely hanging on

Bella enjoying grazing in the front pasture

  More demand for the Base Camp Beanie at the café

now that the days are colder- I am crocheting my fingers off.

summer is departing
saturated colors appear overnight
 like a whisper

  Fiona Bunny trimmed down from being a Fatty McButter Pants

 this winter horking down on round bales -she can now eat out in the pasture

  Clouds wispy and swirly

 Mountains are being painted a beautiful amber color from the golden Tamaracks

 this summer delicious and a full of wonder

 came and went just a little too fast...

 there is a sweetness in the air

 anticipating the arrival of father winter

 Lilly is smiling as she works

 watching the horses

 a blaze with color

 Bread is being baked

warm and fresh

 though it stings a little to say goodbye to this beautiful season

 I am grateful for every bit and all I have enjoyed

 with my family and my dear friends...it's been a lovely one this year

THE END

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[T]hat old September feeling... of summer passing, vacation nearly done,

obligations gathering, books and football in the air....

Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee

in that annual autumnal beginning,

as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer.

 ~Wallace Stegner