Carpe diem

"It's only four o'clock, and it's already getting dark!" a cashier grumbled today. Daylight Saving Time has spoiled her afternoon; no more daylight for her on work days until spring.

So I came home, grabbed the camera, and went out to catch the last bit of light.

4:24, walking towards the light in the sky. Taken with flash, to catch the leaves. And then lightened a bit, ditto.

Heading north

The last light in the west.

And I turned and walked back home, facing east, into the falling dusk.

A Skywatch post.

Fall back

October/November: time to shut things down for the winter.

Three weeks ago. A snail feasts on a dead rose. Three more flowers to go.

Two weeks ago. Wild silver dollar plant. The seed pods will rattle all winter.

One week ago. Big-leaf maple and "normal" maples caught, for now, on the evergreen ferns.

Yesterday. My young maple has about one day's worth of leaves still hanging on. Bedraggled lily-of-the-valley leaves shelter hungry young slugs.

But the towhees are back, and the juncos; they forage cheerfully among those fallen leaves. And a trio of house finches is still here.

Bathing in the rain.

And Daylight Saving Time is over, done with, finished; I just set my clock back. I get to sleep in! Woo-hoo!
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