Hmm. Skunky dog on a rainy day. Not a pretty olfactory picture. Poor fellow saw the Skunk Off bottles come out and he hid under a bush, not realising that the bush was losing its leaves, and his smelly little snout and little eye could be seen peering back out at me. 
But Ton Ton, whose long name is indeed WellingTon Dog, is here to tell you that Skunk Off really does work. And is relatively pain free though he tries to make me think otherwise but it is not working on the verandah; the scene of the crime. Ah well. 
Glorious rain yesterday. 
Warmth touched by the sounds of autumn.
The colours of harvest..
and the mists of precipitation. Awkward twins. To get rain into the ground before winter is a blessing. If the trees have a good amount of moisture around them, when the ground freezes solid, it is much better for the roots. There is less heaving and moving about as the temperatures rise and fall. The frozen solid soil protects them. So all this lovely rain means a good winter for the trees. Not so good for the harvest. Ah well. 
The Daily View has a soaked magnolia in the foreground. Still warm. Delicious.
Good morning. Our John said to say thank you so much for all his birthday wishes. He has never had so many, not in his whole life, and was quite chuffed. Our weblog world is full of wonderful people. You are wonderful. And I do not say that lightly. In fact Valerie wrote about it yesterday, in her little house by the sea in New Zealand, and she said it so much better. Blogging has so much positive energy. You are my wonderful support team.
Have a lovely day. It rained again last night so off I go to greet my wet cow. A wet cow does not smell nearly as bad as a wet dog though!
celi
What I was doing exactly a year ago: Moving to my winter studio. Now this is interesting. It must have been colder, at this time last year, for me to move upstairs already. We have not even lit the wood stove yet this year. It is not chilly enough for heating. Anyway there are some lovely pictures of my winter studio here, plus (for Christine), a shot of me when I first met John many, many, many years ago. Miss C with an afro is really something to see! I was quite the rage back then with my big DO.
The Kitchen's Garden 
63 responses to “Rain on The Wet Skunky Dog in The Golden Leaves of Autumn”
Morning! Favourite photo: water tumbling into the (is that a birdbath?). It also looks very, very, very wet at your house. We’re dry but grey, grey, grey. As a result, I decided to wear red today. 😀
Misky, you are brilliant, I have a very very bright day here so i shall wear grey! then we will complement each other! That is a water barrel and that is also my favourite today so onto the pinterest board it goes! c
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Poor Ton! I know that, “I’m so Pathetic” look…
WellingTon, eh? I always figured he was a Tauntaun from the Star Wars movies, but you didn’t want Mr. Lucas to get his knickers twisted…
You may have no idea what I’m talking about, but your Sci-Fi loving husband does… 😀
More TonTon Macout from New Guinea! And I am laughing because I actually don’t know what the Tauntaun are!! I shall consult. c
Poor dog, those skunks are a pain. And a stink. I hadn’t realised that about the rain before the winter, I guess there is a positive to everything. 🙂
Lovely, life-sustaining rain; your photos are very refreshing. Everything is wet at the farmy, including TonTon; he looks so sorry for himself in that photo!
Glad Ton is clean. Have a great day!
that rain should arrive here this afternoon and i can’t wait. we sure do need it. poor ton ton looks miserable!
Oh how I wish we had a bit of warm here! The daily view is starting to look a bit wintry. Tonton: why do you keep getting skunked? Better to say out of trouble and avoid the scrub up sessions.
We’ve started lighting the wood stove just for the comfort of the look of it. I always feel that I’m burning 20€ notes that takes some of the pleasure away:)
Thank you for bringing me some tranquility this morning. I was in desperate need.
Poor dog, does not look happy with you…. love the Autumn colours though…
17 degrees, Wow! Although our autumnal colours are also beautiful, teperatures have been in single figures – even below – recently and I’m feeling sorry for our moulting, semi-naked hens!
Christine
Beautiful yellow leaves, rain and a clean dog. The thing is, you need both the trees and the harvest to sustain your life there — it would be nice if nature would get with the program! Here the weather is unseasonably warm, but they are predicting a week of rain next week. We need it.
We are getting driplets (not a word, I know) of rain here in Minnesota. Nothing like a downpour, but we will take every refreshing drop we can get. Yesterday I raked two pick-up loads of leaves and this morning it appears like I did no work. Leaves are tumbling;rain is falling.
So happy you are getting rain as I know your area of the country has been much drier than our corner of Minnesota, although we are certainly short of moisture, too. Most of the crops are harvested here.
The irony of a summer of dry weather then rain at harvest time is not lost on the farmers.. ah well, they will get them in eventually.. c
Poor Ton Ton! Lovely autumn pictures 😉
Poor puppy! He looks pitiful…