Autumn has come. It came on fast actually. The leaves held their green for as long as they could in this wet warm autumn. Now finally the trees have begun to turn their coats and the leaves to release their tenuous hold on life and fall. 
I never rake up leaves I let them lay about the tree looking glorious. It is part of natures design and I love the leaves of autumn. In fact soon I will begin to drive down the alleys of the local small town and gather up bags of leaves raked up by the locals and throw them into the chicken shed to shredded up by their scratchy feet. I throw bags and bags of leaves into the flower gardens to keep the weeds down in the spring. Some bags I leave in the garage so they can decompose into leaf mold. 
I even find it hard to disturb the sheer artistry of leaves laying on the path. This short, short part of the season is almost a relief, a small reluctant smile as the summer drifts away.
The next wind will clean up these trees. Did you know that sometimes wind is not air being ‘blown to’ but air being ‘sucked away’. Depending on pressure and hot and cold of course. You can see how it would get all out of control and become a turmoil. And the wind blows is a nicer phrase than the wind sucked.
Out here under the big sky it is impossible not to be fascinated by weather.
TonTon is seen here carrying a leaf around in his mouth. I think he is a bit embarrassed to be caught picking up leaves. When he is busy he compulsively picks something up, and this time it was a leaf.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
36 responses to “Golden Fall”
I love the silhouette of the rooster! And all your leaves. Ours are long gone, here in east-central Minnesota. I was looking at the bare trees the other day and thought, “Just another seven months until the leaves come back…” Sigh!
sigh indeed – the winters are a long time to go without colour
The line from Shakespeare’s 73rd Sonnet always comes to mind~ “Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang…”
What a lovely first read of the day. Those images are outstanding… and calming. We have very little color here but I expect soon there’ll be a change. The deer are beginning to move in the woodlands. It is a good sign of cold weather to come.
I always wait for your pictures. They are glorious, colorful and interesting. It is a beautiful read. Thank you.
That has got to be one of my all time favorite posts. Not sure why, except that you have so perfectly, in every way, captured autumn, and I love you for it. It is my favorite season, I think.
The photo of the rooster is very cool, but I love all of your autumn photos. You have such a beautiful place to live. This has been an incredibly wonderful season and it looks like we will have warmer-than-normal weather for at least another week. I feel as though it’s been a blessing to everyone who has to put up with the Midwest US winters.
I have been enjoying your autumn pictures, we just go from green to brown and more brown. The wind always sucks, especially when it doesn’t bring rain 🙂 Laura
Fall seems to be Mothers Natures way of filling our eyes with color and delight – so that during winter we can close our eyes and see our memory of the fall. It is her way of helping us cope through the dim and dormant months. Fall is my favorite time of year. Spring is glorious but Fall is all MINE being a November baby. Happy Autumn Miss C!
But Miss C, it is a pretty leaf says TonTon! I was on a walk the other day and enjoyed picking up 2 beautiful maple leaves each with unique and beautiful coloring! I laughed out loud at the difference between “the wind blowing or the wind sucking” — in deep winter when the temp is well below zero there is no doubt the wind sucks! Lovely pictures of autumn and the fall in your part of the country. We have been blessed to have such nice weather so far. Have a blessed day!
When I think of sucking winds, I think of hurricanes, having grown up in a hurricane prone area. But, the image of the large cloud blowing the wind is common….never seen him sucking! A funny thing to think about. Today is Friday and I am glad. Your green, green grass with the yellow leaves is so pretty. Leaves provide so many gifts, oxygen, carbon dioxide absorption, shade, weed control and compost. But I digress…you got me thinking! Have a wonderful day and pet the dogs for me. They are good boys.
The cows don’t seem to mind 🙂
My favorite season, this autumn. It’s been a gloriously long one here in southern Minnesota. Temp to reach nearly 70 today, meaning one less day of winter.
Love the leaf in the dog mouth pic and the vast sky pic.
Fall is such a beautiful time. The end of one season and the beginning of the next is always picture perfect to us. XOXO – Bacon
Oh Miss C, such a beautiful autumn environment you have photographed. I love the fall, and I even love raking leaves 😉
Looking again (and again) at those last three photographs, it’s fun to imagine what the chicken, the dog, and the cow are thinking–the chicken especially: caught looking down on her neighbors? or just curious about the antics in the street, as I often am.
I wonder, do the citizens of that little town gossip about the leaf lady? Collecting someone else’s leaves– now that’s a new one! But it makes so much sense. Another lesson about the cycle of life. I saw a man with a leaf blower yesterday. He was shooing the beautiful leaves willy nilly out into the street to be crushed by cars and, presumeably, washed down the storm sewer by the coming rain. Reading your version of reverent leaf disposal makes me feel so much better today.
For you, it’s Keats’ ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. For us, it’s the time of new leaves, of buds, of sudden rampant growth after a short, hard rainstorm. I miss those days of red and golden showers of leaves here in the tropics, where leaves rarely fall…