It has been great to be with my parents in California for the past week-and-a-half. California is always beautiful, and the weather there was lovely the whole time I was there. In the middle of last week, my husband told me a bit of our yard was in the newspaper, and sent me the photo above (which was taken from our paper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.) It is of the median in our street, and you can just see the box that covers our backflow preventer in the background. We live on one of the few residential streets that still have a median, put there long ago to cover tracks from the cable system that used to run down our street.
At this time of year, people tell me that they often drive past our house, just to see the beautiful trees that line the street, as they change colors.
When my husband picked me up from the airport Saturday evening, and drove me home (to our newly painted house!), I saw that autumn had truly arrived in my absence. The evening light shining through the leaves at this time of year almost makes my heart ache with it's beauty. I can think of nothing more beautiful to me than autumn light!
This is my St. Francis statue in my lily of the valley bed. Prettier than even when they are blooming, don't you think?
October is not Halloween to me; it is color and light. It is the most beautiful of months. I do hope October has been that to you, as well.
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything
bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year
for the grand finale.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I
would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
― George Eliot
― George Eliot
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