FALL EQUINOX

"Come, little leaves"
said the wind one day.
"Come over the meadows with me, and play.
Put on your dresses of red and gold.
Summer is gone, and the days grow cold."
Soon as the leaves
heard the wind's loud call,
Down they came fluttering,
one and all.
Over the brown fields
they danced and flew,
Singing the soft little songs they knew.

~George Cooper

Teeny Tiny shroomies! I can just imagine a minuscule village of sprites in there!



Nature Lady is holding some yummy bolete mushrooms we picked at Eklutna lake

Red and green and wine entwined. Our Fall has burst into life quite quickly but is following suit with all the erratic weather of the seasons this year. It's brilliance is already being extinguished by a great deal of rain , wind, unusually chilly weather, and the distraction with absurd politics! We've been in a scramble to experience that slowing down of days, the progression of the summer's fruition coming to an end- but it's happened so fast! Last year's magnificent Fall(the best I've witnessed yet)allowed us so many active days of marveling in the changing of colors-the leaves took their time through that glorious metamorphosis of color, each day bringing a slight variance from the day before. Now, the leaves are spotting, fading and decaying so rapidly that if we miss a day, we miss so much of that transformation. Last Fall we observed the birth and death of various mushrooms and fungi, we breathed in the smell and touch of that ubiquitous crisp air, and it afforded us the leisure to enjoy so many Fall and harvest time activities and crafts.... I'm disheartened that this season is slipping by before we have had much of a chance to review the knowledge we gained from last Fall and embark on a fresh journey into new Autumnal perceptions...

But, as always, we will try to make the best of it , perhaps learning to see in new and different ways. Maybe what we are offered is a paradigm shift for reasons yet to be revealed.

Either way, the world is turning, time continues forward in and out of the seasons. As we travel with those rhythms , we wish you all a joyful Equinox!