Quite a week of celestial sights and omens. Bright blue Venus escorted daily crisp sunrises. And a first time encounter --- rainbows in the west (morning) and east (afternoon) on the same day!
Shipping traffic is increasing on the bay with the seasons. This "ship" is actually an old hull being pushed around by a tugboat secured aft. It came in with road salt, offloaded, reloaded with grain, and then left port all within 12 hours.
Lots of leaves still coming down but here's the last pear and the last dandelion of the season. Maybe?
We're happily dishing out nourishment to migrants passing through. Nuthatches, cardinals, juncos, and purple finch are on extended stopovers. Where do stick bugs go in winter??
Yardwork never ends. Whip and sweep thick grasses. Skim and scoop leaves in the pond. Maybe he should borrow the phragmite-mowing amphibian they're using in town?
A Boot Hill mystery solved. One of Pat's wetsuit boots wound up in the woods --- what?? Turns out hungry foxes have been scrounging around the house. On the menu are chipmunks, mice, fallen fruit, and even a bite of boot. A second fox (female?) came up the hill to follow sleekly over the fence. Awesome and beautiful.
This week's lovin'-from-the-oven are apple pies. One was disappearing before the picture could be taken!
It's Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. (All the more meaningful because my mom's birthday is also Oct. 12.) There will be festive turkey and all the extras later today. But we feel extreme gratitude every day. So thankful to have our health and comforts, and to live in Canada --- always near the top of the list as most livable on earth. There is much more hardship and chaos to come, especially in the States, but we're ever thankful, living at the end of the rainbow up here.
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