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Appreciating Imperfection
With autumn comes that classic transition from a range of greens to rainbows of yellow/orange/red/purple hues. It’s beautiful and a joy to watch day by day as it happens.
There is still a green path in the woods beyond the portion already being covered with fallen leaves.
Our romantic mental image of spectacular fall colors is an amalgamation of all the greatest scenes we’ve enjoyed in person or through photographs over a lifetime. It’s a legitimate picture even though reality can be less idyllic.
It’s still a little early in the season, but the version of fall colors that we are currently seeing at Wintervale is lacking in the splendor that truly inspires wonder and awe.
For now, our treasured autumn vistas are best experienced from a distance.
That’s not to say there aren’t still some dazzling colors to be found across our landscape. This hollyhock is displaying one last gasp of vibrancy.
I’m working on my appreciation for imperfection in the changing leaves that are unlikely to make the cover of fall publications this year.
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Cyndie’s Eye
I let the Minnesota Vikings take up the middle of my day yesterday and didn’t really accomplish much before or after the game worth writing about. However, Cyndie has been taking some interesting pictures that she has graciously allowed me to feature this Monday.
The sky at sunrise yesterday included a rather precise edge of cloudiness.
Was it clearing up or about to become overcast? The clouds were moving in. We saw a few peaks of sun, but much of the day was overcast.
These next two are glimpses she captured of me that feel a little self-aggrandizing to include, but since they each feature animals as well, I’m using them.
When you’ve been married for 45 years, and your wife is still taking stealthy photos of you, I think that is a good sign. She’s got a good eye for capturing scenes depicting daily activity at Wintervale.
We walk the dog, feed the horses, I mow some grass, we gather wild plums, and Cyndie makes jam out of them. She takes our things to a yard sale, and I stay home and watch football. (Sadly, she probably spent more money on the trips to Minneapolis than she made selling things due to the excruciatingly high cost of gas these days.)
And both of us try to capture photos that depict the beautiful surroundings of our everyday. We are richly blessed to live where we do.
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Happily Home
Gee, but it’s good to be back home. First of all, our dew point temperature is significantly lower than it was in Missouri. It actually feels like September here, with the cool evening, warm afternoon, brisk wind, and lowering angle of sunlight yesterday creating a distinct feeling of autumn. The rain that fell here while I was riding the Katy Trail has greened things up considerably.
Cyndie captured this gorgeous shot of the horses backlit by the twilight sky.
Now that’s a field that looks worth grazing.
I spotted one of her sunflowers with an echo of the actual sun in the background.
The wind picked up significantly in the afternoon while I was mowing. The north loop trail was clear when I gave it a clean cut, but after lunch, I found it blocked by a fallen tree.
It was a dead pine tree that we had let a grapevine climb, so no big loss as far as we are concerned.
Sometimes, the beauty of Wintervale causes me to question why I ever leave.
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*This is the second time I have used “Last” for a title on this blog. Click HERE to see the first time.
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Four Versions
Here are four versions of images I captured of the surface of our lake in the order they were taken:
Take from them what you will…
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