“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery

“… the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.” — wrote Mary Oliver

Returned from walking the dog. The salmon are spawning in the rippling streams on Vancouver Island beneath the golden Big Leaf Maples and majestic red cedars. All I heard was rushing water, salmon splashing, rustling leaves, and an occasional Kingfisher. Prominent among the visual treats was the welcome musky scent of frost-bitten leaves.

Caught without my camera, I’m sharing images from autumns past. Crisp morning and evening air, wool sweaters, steam rising from morning coffee, leaves drifting down in an autumn dance — these are some of my favourite autumn moments.

“Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William C Bryant

Wishing you adventures in nature during the short-lived beauty of autumn.

2 thoughts on “Meanwhile, autumn”

  1. Lovely photos. I love Mary Oliver. A lot of Canada geese seem to winter here. Most mornings I hear them fly overhead about 7:30 am, heading from one lake to another and then, again, in the late afternoon heading back. The other afternoon I was in the backyard when they flew over in their V-formation. There must have been about 50 of them and they were low, just barely over the treetops. It was a great sight.

  2. wow, what magnificent images

    gotta love the brilliance and simplicity of the first leaves image

    i notice you mention the geese are going home, but i don’t think so. aren’t they being forced to leave the home they so dearly love and head to my home so they can survive the winter? then, when they know it’s safe to go home in the early spring, they will come home to you?

    after-all, they are canadian geese, are they not?

    (btw, as a child in ohio, i always felt our robins had to go away from home to the south in order to live and then in the spring, they came home)

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