We actually had some rain over the week-end -a full Day soak. Magically brown has turned to green. Now for some fall odds and ends fun. Here are some berries from our Scarlet firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea). They almost allow you to forget how sharp the thorns are.
The persimmons are on the trees and beginning to drop. when fully mature they are sweet and delicious.
If not - very bitter.
Here is a small tree with many persimmons and no leaves.
On the trail if you look down the juniper berries are collecting.
And if you look close there is an occasional surprise.
Closer to home the deer have eaten the leaves off my favorite stonecrop.
But its nature is to produce its amazing flowers however small.
Yard Work
I think that someone will remember us in another time,
Sappho once said — more or less—
Her words caught
Between the tongues tip and the first edge of the invisible.
I hope so, myself now caught
Between the edge of the landscape and the absolute,
Which is the same place, and the same sound
That she made.
Meanwhile, let's stick to business.
Everything else does, the landscape, the absolute, the invisible.
My job is yard work—
I take this inchworm, for instance, and move it from here to there.
Charles Wright
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