Fall’s Glory

I can’t get enough of leaves! These, from my favorite maple tree.  This year I have my own sapling from one of its seeds,  so maybe one year these multi-colored wonders will fall in my own yard!

And always, the Big-leaf Maples are a wonder…esp. in a dark fir and cedar wood where they fall with such a splash of color…

Our trails this week took us to this very cool bridge…

…in the middle of a very green wood with its lush moss carpeting……and a HOST of mushrooms (and toadstools?)  These tiny blue ones were the bluest I’ve ever seen (sorry for the blur; it was a dark woods)
… and they come in purple too!

Now here’s one happy host!

But these are the prize ones that keep people foraging and later feasting! 
Chanterelles.  Very tasty.

And this little fellow came along for the ride home with the chanterelles…

But now we’ve left the wet and wonderful mushroom coast, leaving behind the rainy gray for sunny blue skies and mountains dappled in gold with the first frosting of snow on their heights. Awesome.

--LS

On a quiet fall day…

 

On a quiet fall day there sits a little lake, more like a big pond really, not much lauded, but sitting calmly reflecting to itself of lily pads and cloud trails…

We stopped as we were pedaling by to have a closer look and snap shots of the trees all decked out in rouge and fall’s latest fashions…

… a tangle of light and texture and color waiting to be celebrated.

  And when the business of the day took me later to the library, the trees there were  lollygagging in their brilliant costumes too,  just waiting for pictures to be taken…

It’s not every parking lot that boasts of such a view…

I prayed years back that I’d never tire of our ‘commuting’ view….I haven’t.  I pulled over to have a better look on my way home and what do you suppose I saw?…the glory of God, in plain view.

The heavens declare His glory.  The firmament shows His Handiwork.  Day after day utters speech and night after night, knowledge.  There is no speech or language where this voice is not heard! (Ps.19:1-3)

Praise the Lord!

--LS