Sunday, October 3, 2010

Glimpses of Green and Red


These are a couple of shots from the Moon-Diggs area well before fall started her annual mission to minimize all of summer's vibrant green colors. The green fields and red structures complement each other well.


Currently our soybean fields are yellow and brown mixed with the occasional hint of lackluster green; it won't be too long before they're harvested.

Of course "harvest" makes me think of Thanksgiving and the colors green and red make me think of Christmas. After the week I've just barely survived, the prospect of the impending holidays, which will be here in half a blink of an eye, makes me want to escape to Bora Bora immediately, never to return again.

(Nothing against Mathews, in fact I prefer to live here.  But it's all the reponsibilities and obligations I feel the urge to leave behind.)

Since I don't have a passport, I'll just put my head down and plow ahead, like a combine going through the soybean fields.

Today, though, I hope to do a whole lot of nothing. Doing nothing is very underrated, and I need to reacquaint myself with the notion.

What will you be doing today or what did you do this weekend?

Friday, October 1, 2010

Flowers for Friday


Mathews had been so spoiled by beautiful, sun-filled days for so long that Mother Nature, fearing we were taking things for granted, decided to change things up a bit. She hates it when we become complacent and/or unappreciative.

Yesterday it rained pitchforks.

The ditch where my lane meets 198 boasted Class 4 rapids.

CB Son's school was cancelled due to the flooding.

CB Daughter's school - in Gloucester, 30 miles round trip in Class 4 rapids without the benefit of a kayak, flotation devices or safety helmets - was not.

Our electricity current went out for approximately forty-eleven hours. On my daughter's birthday, when I was supposed to bake her a cake and my mother was supposed to cook her favorite dinner.

Oh well.

In the hopes of forgetting about yesterday's trials and tribulations, most of which are not even mentioned above, I'm giving us all some beautiful fall weeds flowers from the Beaverlett area, which hopefully wasn't completely washed off the map by the deluge.  Never mind for the moment that Beaverlett is not on the map on a sunny day.  We don't want to over complicate things.

Roadside flowers from the Beaverlett vicinity or thereabouts. Sept. 2010 

When was the last time you saw a patch of wildflowers of any description? Have you ever been given a bouquet of wildflowers? 

Have a great, flower-filled weekend free from rain, pitchforks and other natural disasters.