Autumn

Morning rays announce
The arrival of autumn
Leaving me wanting
To hold summer in my hand
And keep green warm forever

I have no training but do enjoy these challenges.  The fun is in the doing.  Thank you, Toads.

Fall, Art, Poetry...

Amazing artist lives here.  Art by Kathryn,  Challenge by Imaginary Garden With Real Toads. 

Fall

I
Fall
  You
       Always
     Catch
            Me
I
Am
  Putty
        In
     Your
           Hands

Fall

has arrived At The Farm.

Wordless

Fall In Our Valley

The crops have been gathered

Inspected

and stored

The trees are changing

and football is all that matters.

Fried Green Tomatoes And All Things Fall

I can taste them!

Fall harvest

The autumn of my life is here and the autumn of the year. The mornings are chilly with a little bite in the air but it warms into a beautiful day. The rains have stopped for the moment and the mornings have a foggy look since the air is cooler than our water. Hubby has had a fire a couple of mornings.

Things still grow and Marcy is harvesting and putting up for winter. The squirrels are storing nuts too and it is a battle to see who gets the pecans first.

Fall is a sad time, an end of running barefoot through the grass and playing in the creek in the heat of the day. The grass will slow its growth and wait for the first frost to change it colors.
The leaves are beginning to turn and will soon turn loose and fall to the ground...

Fall is in the air...

The last few mornings have been cool but hopefully we are far from a killing frost. The garden is still producing okra and a few cucumbers.

The chestnuts are falling along with the walnuts, persimmons and pecans. Marcy has planted winter greens where we cleared for two purposes, food and erosion control.

Do not know if someone will be buying walnuts this year or not. That was always my spending money growing up. We had to pick them up anyway and if we sold them we got some pocket change. I am not so eager this year to pick them up since I am a year older and a year stiffer. Bev and I picked several feed sacks full this afternoon.

Last year we got forty dollars for a bed load. It did fill up all the equipment with gas...last year!