Brief Notes from My Morning Walk

Highlighted in this photo you can see the first flight
of over 50 geese heading south
high in the clear autumn sky.

There was definitely a chill in the air this morning.  The thermometer on my front porch read 42 degrees F. at sunrise.  When the sunlight reached its arms over the trees the entire area glistened with the heavy, cold dew that had settled on the earth during the evening and early morning hours.

Yesterday when the clouds blew south, the sun quickly warmed the country side.  I stood in my driveway and heard geese far overhead.  They were not the four or five local geese that I see almost everyday flying from pond to pond but thirty or more flying high in the autumn sky, heading south to whatever destination their primal instincts and tens of thousands of years of internal memory drives them.

The oaks are beginning to show signs of fall color in the field in front of our house.