October 20: Wind

startled awake

by eerie howling

autumn wind

October 19: Waxing moon

night alone

in a stranger’s house

the same moon

October 18: Mozart

Mozart up loud

wind-blown pines

also conducting

October 17: Fallen leaves

unraked lawn

protecting habitat

for woolly bears

October 16: ALCS Game 3

post-season baseball

timeless

green of the outfield

October 15: Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”

Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”

spring in the car

fall outside

October 14: Winter ducks

Our nesting birds, the orioles and ospreys, have migrated south. And ducks that nested up in the Hudson Bay area this summer are also now migrating south, to the coast of Maine, here for the winter.

first frost

winter ducks returning

from up north

October 13: Sparrows

autumn rain

sparrows feeding

in the leaf litter

October 12: Geraniums

warm-ups

moving the plants

inside for winter

October 11: Birdfeeder

home alone

filling the birdfeeder

for the company

October 10: Garter snake

one little snake

distracts us from fall

leaves