Saturday, October 17, 2015

10.17.15 Out in the woods early this morning,

      the air was cool and clear, the season hankering for a change. Each step tasted like the close of summer, that last of the growing for the time being.
     Out along the wooded path, there is evidence of many creating their winter homes, setting claim to their winter neighborhoods, storing foods or digging holes and barrows.
     Out in the woods, there are so many creatures who spend all their days staying invisible from this one species of humans. They are thickening their fur and their underfeathers, filling up and fattening themselves in storage for long cold snow packed days.

     Out in the woods the streams have dried, the leaves fall incessantly  singing with their pattering across the ravines. As the cold winds come, one after another, as we hear the news that tonight will bear the killing frost. And all will begin the long sleep.

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