More and more hornets are seeking a place to spend the Winter. They've been bumping into the picture window and arriving at the screened patio to clamber up alongside the joists that support the deck / patio roof. Perhaps someone told them that tomorrow is the Autumnal Equinox and it's time to find Winter quarters.
Today's breeze is a bit more than we're comfortable with for torching the brush pile. Perhaps tomorrow will be calmer and we can enjoy celebrating solstice tomorrow evening. For now (since it just also started to pour rain), here's a couple of the photos we took today while checking the increased amount of colors in the local leaves.
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| local colors just before equinox
Photo by J. Harrington |
We learned late yesterday and early this morning that not all of the female ruby-throated hummingbirds have headed South. At least one, we guess it's the same one, showed up at the feeder both times. Possibly no one's yet told her that tomorrow's the solstice.
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| tamaracks just hint at gold
Photo by J. Harrington |
A day from now we will have entered the Dark Half of the year. We hope that will only refer to diminished daylight hours and nothing more sinister. This may well be the time when we need to pay careful attention to identify reasons for celebration. If we are careful enough, those reasons will be found. Rebecca Solnit once again has shared with us her assessment of just how much we depend on others in her essay on How Change Happens. Do you agree that change is one of the few constants in life? Have you considered whether you can control or direct the changes in your life? Solnit isn't the only person to call to our attention how change happens, Margaret Wheatley informs us that:
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.
So, in these turbulent times, as change continues to roil our waters, hadn't we best tend to the quality of our relationships?
I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
peach. It might
have been otherwise.
I took the dog uphill
to the birch wood.
All morning I did
the work I love.
At noon I lay down
with my mate. It might
have been otherwise.
We ate dinner together
at a table with silver
candlesticks. It might
have been otherwise.
I slept in a bed
in a room with paintings
on the walls, and
planned another day
just like this day.
But one day, I know,
it will be otherwise.
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Please be kind to each other while you can.
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