A Bit of Summer Now That It Is Autumn

I’m a bit slower on the seasonal post this time. Something always seems to push itself ahead of going through photos to create a post, making adjustments to size and levels, and then sitting down to actually write the thing.

This is being written at the time of year when our solar power allotment shifts from excellent to maybe. We’ve stopped using the large refrigerator and gone to the smaller winter refrigerator. Towards the end of this year and the beginning of next the sun will pretty much be behind trees.

Autumn is glorious in its color and the lower sun seems to put light in the forest in different ways than we were used to in summer. Tree leaves glimmer and it’s easy to stop what we’re doing and just look at the wonder around us.

Now, on to last summer.

This is a fragment of a hornet’s nest found on the road on the way to the mailbox. The entrance to the nest is a slender tube with thin paper walls.

This was taken in early June, still spring, and it shows Indian Pipe emerging from the moss that is our yard on the north side of the house.

Cancer root appears at about the same time.

Happy solar panels on the 26th of June. These are on the west edge of the garden. At the time this post is written these panels, which catch the earliest sun, don’t have sun on them until after 10:30 in the morning.

What is paradise without its snake. This is the garden in early June. The black snake had its head and half its body down a critter hole in the bed. By the time I came back with the camera it had withdrawn from the hole. A couple of pictures later it had left the bed and was heading south away from me.

This is a Devil’s Dipstick mushroom with a visiting bug. These mushrooms pop up every now and again in the yard and I can’t remember if we’ve ever posted a photo of one. Two days later it had disappeared.

Molly spotted this Luna Moth on the shop wall. The moth in its mature form lives just a day to reproduce.

Our grandson Elijah came to visit in August and one of the things we did was hand him a camera and we went through the yard searching for all the different kinds of mushrooms we have. Here’s one of his photos.

October 26, 2023