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Bony Little Trees

🍂🪾🍂 We’re well into the season 🍂 of chilly breezes and fallen 🍂 leaves. I wait the whole year for this 🍂 brief interlude of 🍂 bleak autumn 🍂 before we launch into the holidays🍂🍂🍂

Deepening Autumn

The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. ~Hal Borland

Yes, this contemplative phase of autumn sneaks up on us like the creeping cold.

Some people lament the loss of summer’s warmth, but I love how late autumn’s chill helps us to appreciate the warmth of our homes and families.

The oven creating sumptuous casseroles, hearty squash, savory roasts to warm us on the inside.

Late nights with cocoa, blankets and movies when it already looked like midnight at midafternoon.

People may be sad about the shift in seasons, but I can’t see a good reason to be sad about bundling up all warm and comfy at home.

I can’t picture a better gift for Mother Nature to bestow.

Walking 🍂 Through 🍂 Leaves

Vince Guaraldi – earliest television recording of “Linus and Lucy”

Even without the cartoon, if you grew up with Charlie Brown specials, this tune automatically summons images of kids walking around their neighborhood among the fallen leaves.

Between the Great Pumpkin and the Thanksgiving special, there was something inherently cozy about the nonsense those kids got up to.

Linus jumping into a pile of leaves with an enormous lollipop is the kind of silly mishap anyone could identify with.

For me, it’s watching my pocket 🐺 wolf, Rose, running around in the leaves out back that gives me the deep autumn vibes.

I’m hoping I’ll have a chance to take some walks with Kelly and Rose now that the weather is finally civilized.

It’s entirely the wrong damn season to be so incredibly busy all the time.

I’m looking for that autumnal chill to take over and lead us calmly into the holiday season.

Good Bones

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape… ~Andrew Wyeth

So do I, Andy.

Looking around the formerly riotous blaze of autumnal glory blanketing the ground, I see the bones of Mr. Penn’s Woods standing in their seasonal somnolence, waiting for the new green buds of spring.

For now, I’m satisfied with the change in temperature and all the lovely trees settling in for their ❄️ long Winter‘s naps ❄️.