autumnal No. 1

Kale in the fall garden

"It takes a calender one damp day to declare fall,
weeks of dying mums to second the motion."

from Backyard Georgics, by Lance Larsen
Source: Poetry (November 2010)

autumn vase

seeing through a new lens
the arc of the daffodil

"So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay" ~ Robert Frost

autumn rain

Dahlia 'Eternal Snow'

House windows flutter quietly in the day - now more, now less - and breathe deep the garden air, still warm with the radiance of summer ... a dahlia blossom, made heavy by the rain, nods on a bent stem and finds its way into my kitchen ... this is autumn. - MMW

electric blue

hakonechloa macra aureola
shimmering in August

The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver ... I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?