A brilliant, clear morning sky is most welcome after a lengthy series of overcast, sometimes gloomy mornings.

A brilliant, clear morning sky is most welcome after a lengthy series of overcast, sometimes gloomy mornings.

Here is a healthier and more permanent view to appreciate than being glued to a computer or TV screen obsessing over second by second election updates.

Lacking a hard freeze so far, falls’ colours have been subdued, and that’s fine. One must see into oneself more deeply to appreciate subdued colours.

A spider web sparkles in the morning sun.

The view down a county road dissolves into invisibility.


I greatly enjoy the gentle, soft illumination of our the sky- and land-scape before the sun rises..

Sometimes we hurry from web page to web page, from place to place, in a controlled environment.
It is important to stop and appreciate the real world, the world we live in every day. That is why I try to spend some time outside every day – hot or cold, wet or dry, work or home. I usually (though not always) succeed.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

From the few examples planted in a flower front bed a few years ago, the Purple Coneflowers have needed no care at all and multiplied in a way very pleasing to us, and to pollinators both resident and passing through. There’s a honeybee on a flower in the lower right quadrant.

A recent sunset lit the evening sky with brilliant fire.
