feeling the autumnal feels

it's harder to be sad

on a sunny day

when so many leaves

have turned golden

busy work above

scrape scrape scrape

POUND POUND POUND

sawwwwwwwww

sawwwwwwwww

sawwwwwwwww

random drop of object(s)

more scraping

POUND POUND POUND

bootsteps

rustling

...

done for the day

 

from the sounds of it...

roofing is intricate

but not necessarily delicate

work

Coccinellidae

sea holly to bed

long quack grass to bed

hedge clippings to bed

marigolds to bed

bloom resistant dahlia to bed

tomatoes to bed

(and in days to come) begonias to bed

and among them all

sweet ladybugs

flying lower

tucking in

as we slowly

slowly 

slowly

put summer

to bed

late summer serenade

September afternoon sounds

from yards and yards away

the drone of a lawn mower

humming humming humming

committed to memory

waves to be recalled

months from now

one quiet 

snowy day

harvesting

 

sun moth

this afternoon a curious sight

a large butterfly

so large at first i wondered

'is that a small bird?'

but no

a butterfly

almost uniformly brown

here 

then gone

maybe a moth adapted to daylight?

whoever she was

she was lovely

and well on her way

on this late summer's day

 

crimson

all of the others still green

but one of the tomatoes 

is turning