October 31: Halloween

Outside, pitch-dark.

All rainy evening

two cats go in and out.

 

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October 30: Buffleheads

Count six bobbing ducks,
then thirty. Coldest morning yet.
I hardly notice.

October 29: Morning ritual

Crow watches
as I scrape the frost
from my windshield.

October 28: Hooded Mergansers

Driving through Belfast this afternoon after a couple of meetings, I gave myself permission to take the time to stop and watch a group of about ten Hooded Mergansers bobbing in the dark waters of a small, city-owned pond called The Muck.

Pulled over to watch
mergansers gathered on a pond.
Just that.

Hooded Merganser drake.
Photo by Ken Billington via Wikimedia Commons

October 27: Sunday

In from the woods.
Crusty boule, toasted, with Brie.
Football on TV.

October 26: Nostalgia

One maple still glows
still holds all its shining leaves
and two crows.

October 25: Movement

Unseen upriver
many geese honking,
then the flurry of wings.