October 7: Painted Ladies

Afternoon spent trying

to glimpse the undersides

of Painted Ladies

October 6: Harvest Moon

harvest moon
rising over bales of hay,
skeleton on the lawn

October 5: Warm spell

Car windows open.
A yellow leaf
becomes a fellow passenger.

October 4: Tempo

Indian summer.

Walking home

in time with the crickets.

October 3: Chill

Cold snap.

Turning up the heat

and the car stereo.

October 2: River, early fall

low water

the drowned forest

sees daylight again

 

 

October 1: Skunks

fall constellations

in the backyard

holes dug by skunks