Witchy Wind

Dervish leaves
all over the streets
propelled by gusty winds
fly up startling, beautiful
Blink in staccato view
of zany attacks
their gold glint silhouettes swirling
before the white mares' tales
and mackerel clouds
blue sky
bare branches and twigs
already stripped
by this bizarrely prankish wind
that comes before
a dormant November

The same flaming trees

from phtos a day or two ago already bare.

Fall Colors This Year

The small crimson plant is the new Burning Bush recently transplanted.

October kitten birthday party

It's that time again

These were taken last year, but it's beginning to look much the same.

We cleaned up the back yard today, pulled old vegetable vines, mulched, raked. Yesterday I replanted some jonquil bulbs.

Transplants

The mutt is our neighbor's dog Mojo barking at me.
We've had drowning rains but the transplants appear
to be surviving.
I am showing only the most visible transplants here, but I did get the list completed last week, with the addition of balloon flowers and purple coreopsis.

Landscape

Green, gold, green.
There is no water here,
no pond, lake, or stream.
My heart will be the pool reflecting sky.