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"Stream-side Autumn Ashes" - color pencil drawing - ©Bruce A. Morrison |
Autumn rates way up there on my favorite
season scale…its a memory bank of pleasant days outdoors with a warm sun
in your face, and the crisp air a pleasant mediator.
Unless…ya
there’s always a disclaimer. Unless the neighbors have just harvested
their soybeans and corn! In that case, if its a warm humid day (as
we’ve been experiencing this fall), outside work or leisure can find a
person tormented by seen and unseen assailants…that like to bite!
Youch, what a bummer those little “no-seeums” (minute pirate bugs) and
Asian Ladybird Beetles can be!
But
hope rests eternal in a future killing frost, and a return to the
pleasant 60 degree days we used to refer to as Indian Summer.
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - photograph - ©Bruce A. Morrison |
Right now we’re really enjoying those
familiar visitors returning this fall - bird migration brings our
warblers and sparrows back to the acreage and pastures…a myriad of small
birds darting about catching small bugs or stripping the seeds from the
past summer’s flowers.
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"Autumn Along Dog Creek" - oil painting - ©Bruce A. Morrison |
Our leaves aren’t spectacular this year,
but we had good summer rains and a dry fall for harvesting. I’ve often
found a dry fall to make for a great “leaf looker” season - maybe it was
the wet summer that set things up the way we’re seeing it this year?
I’m just leaving this one to chance - what else can you do? Enjoying it
never the less!
I’ll just paint or draw autumn to suit the season’s spirit I guess…come on Indian Summer!!!
Thanks for stopping by! Please be good to one another - we’re all in this together.
(Artwork and Photography from Morrison’s Studio on Prairie Hill Farm - morrisons-studio.com)
