A beautiful early autumn day. The sky is blue, the clouds are light and the air is crisp. The last few butterflies rest on the ground on top of dry leaves that are strewn everywhere. They lie in the sun until they have enough heat to fly.
But they merely bide their time until they exit this world very soon. A few dragonflies still make their sentry rounds along the perimeter searching for whatever flying insect life remains. 
I see honey bees on the golden rod and a few hover flies here and there. The wolfbane is ready to burst open any day.
The trees are shedding their leaves everywhere you look. Sometimes they stream down in showers and sometimes one by one. While I was taking a few photos, I felt them dropping on my head and shoulders.
A beautiful day, a golden day that very soon will be just a memory as October marches toward Halloween and the days shorten toward winter. And these are a reminder that it’s time to finish all the yard chores before the cold weather sets in. All the furniture, hoses, tools, and gardening equipment need to be gathered and stored away. Fences needed to be strengthened, holes filled and damage repaired all along the length of the buildings.
Luckily for me Camera Girl has provided a list of all my chores! Lucky me.
But this has been a good year for setting things right. Major repairs were successfully completed in time for winter and just a few finishing strokes are needed to return everything to normal. The next forty days will be very busy with annoying responsibilities that will be … very annoying. But once that is over, I will be in a much better place schedule wise and every otherwise. And coincidentally we will all be past the milestone of Election Day. All of the excitement and uncertainty will be over once and for all. I can stop thinking about all this political claptrap once and for all. This election is a complete acid test. If a Kamala Harris can be installed in the White House under the circumstances that have prevailed for the last four years, then there is absolutely no reason to think that my point of view has any relation to who is made president.
At that point I will order my life according to the laws of cause and effect as they are demonstrated not by what is said but by what is done. I will take it as my responsibility to protect my family as best I can from the predatory elements that have been unleashed by the people in charge and teach them to read the signs in order to do the same for their families. I will look for like minded people to gather with and enjoy the good things that this world provides. And I will look for any leaders who might appear who show they can handle themselves and provide a refuge for those who aren’t deluded by the toxic nonsense that the regime teaches to the weak minded and the gullible.
So here we are. October will come and go quickly. And after that unpleasantness in early November the holidays will be upon us. I’m looking forward to gathering with friends and family and go over all the milestones that have happened this year. And plan for next year’s. I’m looking forward to eating too much of the rich food that Camera Girl is famous for. And spending hours shooting the breeze with family that I don’t see often enough. And we’ll perform all the typical rituals and congratulate each other for surviving another year.
Yes, it was a beautiful day and a good day to get things done.
Well said
Thanks.