Contentment by design - Living - Places photo #1152

We are having a beautiful autumn. After a rather dry summer of at times brutal heat, it has cooled down, and we have been graced with a few wonderful rainfalls. Things have actually greened up even as the leaves in the deciduous trees have begun to turn yellow, orange, and red.

Today we have some quite strong, gusty winds, the kind where I had to keep holding onto my cap I was out walking. The sun was just coming up over the hills that line the creek valley through which I walk. At one point, I looked up to see a glowing golden tree flash back and forth between brilliant illumination and darkness as the gusts blew it between the light of the sun and the shadows behind. An amazing show!

Because of the wonderful rainfalls we've had, we're also seeing an autumn crop of mushrooms. At one point as I was walking along, I noticed this line of young mushrooms pushing up through the green wildgrasses. Normally, there are just a couple of this type of mushroom in any given location, so it was a treat to see so many lined up like this.