SMALL FALL FLOWERS

Not Spring flowers, but Fall flowers....well, maybe
weeds or wildflowers.....but still pretty!





Even when things are dying, there is beauty. Do you suppose there is a lesson for us there?

BLUE SKY and COTTON CLOUDS

Most of our yard has been mowed now and some of the fields, so I went to take some photos of the progress. However, the sky took center stage...such a beautiful blue and the clouds were balls of cotton scattered as far as the eye could see.

SUNSET BEFORE THE STORM

Waking from a late nap (not sleeping well at night) I saw the most gorgeous clouds out the dinning room window. By the time I got my camera, the best of them were gone, blown away by the wind announcing the approaching thunderstorm. Still, I got a few, before the darker clouds blocked out the sunset completely.
Can’t win them all, I guess, and we do still need the rain.

THE CLOUD DRAGON AND THE SUN

A Cloud Dragon chased the sun one day,
And the sun hid in a tree.
But the dragon waited ‘til the sun came out,
And what a fight I did see.
But the Cloud Dragon won,
As he swallowed the sun.
I was awed at such a feat.
Then with a mighty shudder,
He coughed out the sun,
And it landed . . . a tiny stone,
At my feet.

A WALK THROUGH THE THIRTEEN ACRE WOODS

Yesterday afternoon was the first time I have explored the back part of our acreage since getting my camera...the weather has just been too hot. I only went out to take some pictures of the toadstools, but was lured from one spot to another. The following collages are just some of the pictures I took.


Picture one is fungus on a vine and two is a dead tree in
our 'pond.' Three and four are the toadstools.



Picture one here, is a view of the house from the
'woods' and two is a very large sewer pipe. Three and
four are rock edges where someone must have started a
garden.


Pictures one and two here are yesterday's sunrise, and
three and four are sun spotlights through the leaves.



All four photos here are of a dying pecan tree. I don't
know what to do about it, and the owner is selling the
place commercially. It isn't likely that very many of
these trees will survive any kind of commercial
development. Progress...So sad.