trees in the background have few leaves left
Photo by J. Harrington
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Many of Autumn's leaves and needles have left the aspens, maples and tamaracks. Lots of pines also have dropped the needles that are this year's discards. We know this because many of those leaves and needles, except the tamaracks', are all over our drive. We would very much appreciate a nice, sunny day with a gusty West wind some time in the next week or so. Then, what's covering our drive would end up in the ditch across the road. It that doesn't happen, we'll probably have to resort to raking and hauling leaves and needles to our compost heap.
golden needles will soon fall from the pine trees
Photo by J. Harrington
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To be on the extra safe side, in light of the cold overnight temperature forecast, we disconnected the two hoses. Falling temperatures probably help explain why mice have been sneaking into the garage and getting caught in traps in near record numbers. A contributing factor is possibly that, over the Summer, we eliminated all the leaf cover on the ground around the outside of the garage. With fewer places to nest outside, the mice are now seeking cover inside. If they didn't have the habit of chewing through wiring harnesses or nesting in engine compartments, we'd be more tolerant of their invasive behavior.
Beyond the Red River
The birds have flown their summer skies to the south,And the flower-money is drying in the banks of bent grassWhich the bumble bee has abandoned. We wait for a winter lion,Body of ice-crystals and sombrero of dead leaves.A month ago, from the salt engines of the sea,A machinery of early storms rolled toward the holiday housesWhere summer still dozed in the pool-side chairs, sippingAn aging whiskey of distances and departures.Now the long freight of autumn goes smoking out of the land.My possibles are all packed up, but still I do not leave.I am happy enough here, where Dakota drifts wild in the universe,Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark.
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