I’m grateful for waking up alive on another beautiful fall day, savoring coffee on the patio as potential days to do so decrease.
I’m grateful for two days worth of harvest putting the garden to bed; it could freeze tonight or come too close for comfort for the peppers, so I brought them all in: two types of paprika peppers, Fresnos, jalapeños, and the last little blot pepper.
And grateful after a busy day for a lovely walk up the driveway with Wren and Topaz, in the golden grasses and rabbitbrush, with decorative clouds, and a mountain bluebird hopping fenceposts ahead of us. We heard our first sandhill cranes overhead on the way back downhill.
fall is in the air!
Our first cranes flew over the house a couple of days ago. Just a small flock, like 15. The early birds. Always love that in the fall they fly low over our house for weeks. Sometimes spending the night in fields near us or at the lake. Just another wonderful joy of living in our beloved North Fork valley.