Fall, glorious Fall! And a fall in the bathroom

He turns the seasons around

And so she changes her gown

But they always look in their prime

They go on dancing their dance

Of everlasting romance

Mother Earth and Father Time

The summer larks return to sing

Oh, what a gift they give

Then autumn days grow short and cold

Oh, what a joy to live

How very special are we

For just a moment to be

Part of life's eternal rhyme

How very special are we

To have on our family tree

Mother Earth and Father Time

(Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web)

A flock of grackles.

(Wait, weren't they a band from the eighties?)

Please forgive the Charlotte's Web lyrics. Every Fall, that song rings in my brain, the part about "So she changes her gown". She's definitely changing her gown right now.

This is not a lofty blog...Laura quotes Hal Borland, Endment writes her own, and I quote a cartoon.

I officially hate my camera. The girls and I took Bailey back to Mom's today, and the weather was so glorious I had to bird. I saw:

Turkey vultures

Red-tailed hawks

Blue Jays

Chickadees

Carolina Wrens

Grackles

Wild Turkeys (it's okay, they were sober)

and a whole FLOCK of CEDAR WAXWINGS.

But all those photos went bye-bye when, later at CNC, I dropped my camera onto the cement floor of the bathroom and all those great photos were deleted from the blow.

So imagine a flock of waxwings in your mind...

Yee-Haw! We're ridin' the Learning Log!

(I'm sure I could turn that into a metaphor or something...)

I must have a thing for 2001. This is the sun setting over the vertical part of the Learning Log.

Looks like the Monolith in 2001 and 2010.

Traffic lights and a full moon.