It has not been a splashy autumn, and I am getting grumpy about it. I did find one spot on Essex Road that came off fairly well even on a grey blustery day.
On my way back to the Writing Studio and Bait Shop I spotted one of those silly deer statues on the neighbor’s lawn. Why on earth, I groused to myself, would someone like Bert stick a plaster deer in his yard? Then I noticed that it was chewing, so I thought I might as well take a picture.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Torch Lake Views 
torchlakedays
October 8, 2009
Gerry: Time for new glasses! The plastic ones don’t have nearly as many subtle shades. 😉 Perhaps you were fooled by the blustery day? Come out East. We are having a *fantastic* fall, which I’m told is because all of our rain this summer.
Gerry
October 8, 2009
That explains it. We had a dry summer and NOW it’s raining. Go figure. But I predict that the weekend will be pretty. Maybe rainy pretty, but pretty.
Cheri Sell
October 8, 2009
Pretty picture of Fall color.
Gerry
October 8, 2009
Thank you ma’am. I’d like to see North Carolina fall color, too.
p.j. grath
October 9, 2009
On our side of the bay we don’t yet have many brilliant maples (a few), but sumac and wild cherries are bright orange-red. Love the deer! Reminds me of the time I thought someone had put sculpture of great blue herons around the millpond. Before I could work up a paranoid worry that they would be stolen, one of them took a slow-motion stride forward.
Gerry
October 9, 2009
All I can say is I hope neither one of us ever runs into a “stuffed bear” on the back lanes.