A sudden onset of excruciating knee pain cut my morning walk short. I stopped to verify (for myself) a giant sequoia, making my way around the tree, looking for cones, and decided that would be as good a time to turn around as any. Halfway home, it began to rain. It's warm out (63 F by 9 am, 90% humidity) and I was wearing a jacket (mostly to protect my camera in the event of rain) and the rain felt pleasant, but to spare the camera, I did go home. Raining for real now, have to go back out in it: I want to go to the market.
Last week, bright blue sky, looking up I saw a wavering line of silvery beads catch the sunlight, rolling across the sky like mercury: Snow geese, heading north.
Heard there might be some wind this weekend, so attempted to take pictures of the autumn leaves (on Thursday) before they fell, the air being gray and dark, they all turned out bluish and washed out.
Today at the lake: mallards; coots; a pied-billed grebe; a few cormorants gliding like planes in formation, coming in for a landing; a lone heron standing on the steps to the lake, half-heartedly fishing; and the swimming platform claimed as winter territory by the gulls: their own private island. On the ground, at the drip lines of the conifers, lots of amanitas. Don't recall seeing them here before.
Pictures in no particular order, though the mountain, hickory, and crow are all from the hazy day. Raining hard enough now that visibility has dropped (the nearby hill is barely an outline) and I can hear it through the closed window. I can also hear rumbling, but don't know if it's thunder or construction or bass coming through the wall.
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| The Mountain, October 8/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| Amanita muscaria, October 10/L Herlevi, 2015 |
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| Red Hickory, October 8/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| Roses, September 29/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| Crow, October 8/L Herlevi, 2015 |
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