LIFE

              As you simplify life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

                                                   Henry David Thoreau

             I don't know what he's talking about here.

FALL COMES SILENTLY

      Fall sneaks in silently. One day it just  fall. Summer is over.

     One day there is a new pleasant odor. Photosynthesis has stopped.  Leaves have started their journey of breaking down. So  one day I suddenly say, hey it smells like fall.

    All of a sudden on one day you see that your plants don't need  water poured to them any more. They are finished. You look around and say when did these changes happen? Everything seemed to be like summer yesterday.

     Sunlight has changed a little in color. Sunlight has suddenly become a little weaker or fainter. It also  doesn't pack the heat it did a few days ago.

    Suddenly there is a dryness in the atmosphere. Plants are finished and less water enters the atmosphere.

   I like the pleasant atmosphere of fall. We can slow down. We know that many of our summer duties are over.

THINGS THAT COUNT

             What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

                                                          Albert Pike

          This guy makes perfect sense.

TROUBLE

                  If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing words instead of being pulled by them.

                                                                 Raymond Chandler

               Raymond Chandler knows something about himself.

ADVENTURE WITH DEER

               I've  been know to tell a jack rabbit story or two. I've also told a few deer stories.

             However, this last while I've been losing the war with a deer..

            A few weeks ago a deer or some deer came in my back yard and ate all the tomatoes that were on the plant exterior. I don't have a gate to my back yard so put up some barriers to keep the deer out of my back yard. It worked.

          So it got to to the point where nothing was left to harvest so I didn't put the barriers up. The deer were in the back yard immediately. The first time I caught them I tried to scare them out of the yard. I then decided to go out and move them out of the yard. I came into the back yard and they stood and looked at me. I yelled and they moved around the  corner of the house. I said aha. I'll bet you go around the corner and stay there. That's exactly  what  they had done.

     The next time There was only one deer to catch and then he got very cheeky and laid down in my yard. All the time he was feeding and making a mess.

   I took the carrots out and left them on the step. Big mistake. They nibbled on some of the carrots and spread them around.

     So it's been quite and adventure. I guess the beginning of the rut is happening and this big buck is putting his scent in my yard.

    Once I told my story , people said that I should be careful as deer have been known to run at people.

Black currant that was trashed

Nice green ash in color

The sunflower that was beaten to pulp.

DREAM

     You have to have a dream so that you can get up in the morning.

                                         Billy Wilder

        The want of coffee does it for me.

BE NICE

               Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down.

                                                                              Jimmy Durante

               At least we know that Jimmy Durante was  trying to be humorous.