MY OCTOBER WOODLAND...

My woods on this October day are a place of peekaboo sunshine, shade and spectacular clouds.

Today was damp from yesterday's rain. The temps never rose above 50 degrees, and the winds blew in from the north at 10 to 15 miles per hour. So it was chilly!

Still, it was beautiful. My big dog Mick agrees; it is here that he walks with me every day. And he never complains, whatever the weather.

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IN AUTUMN, EVEN THE GROUND IS BEAUTIFUL...

CALL OF THE OPEN ROAD...

This time of year in my Ohio presents some special views of what might seem ordinary to me during any other season.

 

This barn, for instance. I pass it almost every day. I know it's actually a water plant, built to look like a barn, in deference to its rural neighborhood.

 

And now, in the blue and gold of autumn, the barn and its surroundings are spectacular to me.

 

And the sky... it is so blue it lends a bit of its color even to the roadway!

 

ON THE EVE OF OCTOBER...

On the last day of September 2012, the sky spoke to us through an old weather omen: "Red sky at night... a sailor's delight."

And yes, in the following days of early October, we were blessed with the good weather forecast to us by this spectacular sky..

 

KING OF THE OCTOBER WOODLAND...

"I am Mick, and I am the king of this October woods in which I walk today."

TODAY: BEAUTIFUL OCTOBER

WE ARE KEPT INDOORS BY THE RAIN AND THE CHILL,

BUT THE VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW'S NOT RUN-OF-THE-MILL.