Autumn Already

Wet! Wet! Wet! We have had soooo much rain! Our stream became a crazy intractable torrent an dthreatened to dislodge our bridges. It's subsided now but the wet summer into fall as caused our maples leaves to drop without even changing color.

Here's a still shot of our typically tractable stream in full explosion mode:

Pretty impressive! Too bad we don't have hydroelectric capability; we could certainly generate power to the house with this voulume of water.

Here are two lawn chairs that I think we sat in... once? twice? Not often. I just put the cushions away. It was either too hot or it was rainy. We chose to sit on the terrace in our other chairs and attempt to hide from the bugs, which loved the wet weather and came calling with atypical frequency.

See our big maple past the wood pile? Not many leaves left and they never turned golden like they usually do. This is true all around us and up through Massachusetts, where we recently took a field trip. Not much foliage to gawk, even further north.

Some impressive fairy rings appeared on the lawn as the dew has been very heavy. That's cool but I just don't feel ready for fall into winter quite yet. Yes, our "non-anniversay" will happen (35 years!!!!) but that signals frost and then ice and snow and sleet and horrors! Cold weather!

I think the world being in such a terrible mess (*1) that the approach of shortened days and winter seems even gloomier. Maybe I'll hibernate this year. Just remember to wake me up in spring!

(*1) Don't get me started... really. Just stop now while we're ahead.

 

Beige Bloggery

I never use these colors!! Or lack of color... sort of subdued beige and browns. But I liked the look of this chair (on the way to the dump) when it was seated on the fallen leaves. It gained a composure and dignity that it sure never had at our house.
Odds and bloggish ends: my eye was newly messed up by several doctors (no doubt well-intentioned!) attempts to fit me with a corrective contact lens. A mere three hours of wearing the lens one day and I swore I saw worse than I had previously. The next morning I called the office to complain of this and they had me re-insert the lens to see if the fogginess cleared. Well, it didn't so I had to high tail it back to Yale and have the lens evicted from my eye and life. I think we're supposed to try again with a different lens, but I'm sort of gun shy as my vision is worse (without the lens) than it was before. To be honest, I've been sort of excited that I could see the random thing with my left eye; very erratic but I'd be able to read the digital clock in the car, or see some lettering very clearly. I was starting to pick out individual leaves on the ground on my walks. And now? It's all sort of hazier than it was; almost like it was sanded with very fine sand paper so that it's blurry on a micro-level. I suppose that makes no sense to anyone. But it sucks!! I have two more eye appointments early this week; wish me luck.