FALLing and Fooling, Etc.

Sorry to seem repetitive, but I never tire of looking down to admire freshly washed, still crisp autumn leaves. 

Each leaf has a character all its own.

Each colorful leaf arrangement is unique. 

Who needs an expensive bouquet from a flower shop when the ground is alive with dying leaves?

That's how it is in autumn:  instead of smelling the flowers, we can go outside and behold a myriad of artful warm fall colors on a grassy canvas.

Add a few drops of rain water, and the scene is downright exquisite.

So apologies if I post too many wet autumn leaves with enough life left in them to put on a spectacular show.

You can be sure that my photographic repetition will cease once they get soggy and wet and limp.

In other news, what's with this three or four days of fall and then winter????  

Possible snow this weekend?

Huh?

Granted, we ARE living in a crazy world where virtually every norm, principle, respected institution and long-held fact has been methodically trashed, but fooling with Mother Nature??? 

Who's doing that, and why?

Is someone really out there sitting at a desk with a sharpie changing the rules in the weather manual?

I guess the time-honored rule of "don't fool with Mother Nature" is getting tossed into the garbage bin along with all the other stuff like telling the truth, doing the right thing and even "following the rules," etc.

Snow in September---just not a good thing unless you're on top of a mountain. 

I hope the powers-that-be rethink that phenomenon and authorize an autumn season of at least a month.

If we do get snow, I hope my flowers hang in there and survive.  

Just not quite ready to throw them in the compost piles where most of the garden plants have already gone.

If there IS snow and cold this weekend, at least I feel good about one thing:  the mousetrap line is cocked and ready to go.

This year I have assembled the finest force of mousetraps ever conceived on this planet.  

If the powers-that-be have not yet gotten to changing the rules of mouse behavior, it's for pretty darned sure that those little rodents will be heading toward the house. 

Fair warning, mice!  

We are ready for you, as is Sunny out there in her barn!  

So, ya might think of finding somewhere else to roost.

In the meantime, I guess I'd better shut up and get out there to enjoy the three days of fall before the rules and all that other stuff changes again. 

Two and two still adds up to four, right? 

Happy Tuesday.