Walking along the wood’s edge recently I noticed these three pinecones in this exact position. Did they fall that way? Did a squirrel position them? I don’t know, but the symmetry caught my eye and made me smile. I view three as a sacred number and I loved this moment of noticing.
A few more moments since I last posted:
Grandchildren harvesting figs and the last of the blueberries with their grandpa.
A painted pony trotting like a show pony up the grass paddock hill for breakfast.
Two little donkeys lining up for grooming.
Wild muscadines ripening right over Keil Bay’s gravesite.
Tidying up the farm some with mowing and trimming.
Honeybees coming up the hill from Arcadia to drink from the base of the water hydrant, for the minerals in the earth, I think, since they have fresh water available in their apiary.
The dream I had of galloping on Keil Bay, all over the world, just the two of us checking things out at high speed.
Clean sheets after a long day.
The farm is doing its late summer thing right now. I put up the firefly habitat sign with my husband’s help yesterday, we switched the gate wreaths from summer to fall, and though it still feels like we’re living in a jungle, there are signs that autumn is very close. Some cool nights, less warm days, dogwoods changing color.
May we all find joy in this turning of the season.
2 comments:
Sounds like things on November Hill are lovely to experience. We’ve been mowing, weeding etc. outside, getting things wrapped up a bit. The garden is still producing but I’m having trouble getting rid of all the little sun gold tomatoes! They just keep coming. I’m looking forward to the apples ripening. So happy the days are cooling a bit, we’re in the 70’s now.
Oh, it sounds like things are good up there. I hope we get early fall this year. :)
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