Rabbit Rabbit!

It is the first of September, and it looks like we are settling into a lovely fall! The days are warm, the nights are cool, the sun is like a radiant heater, and the night skies have stars and aurora. The air smells cool and damp, like humus and earth and mushrooms and highbush cranberries.

We still have not dropped below freezing at night on our wee hill, but some of the lower valleys in town have. This weekend, our neighborhood is really starting to look like fall, with reds and yellows in the plants and blue, blue skies:


These sunflowers have had buds on them for nearly a week now, and I've eagerly anticipated them blooming, but all they do is continue to get taller!! What is the deal with them? I sure hope they bloom before they get ruined by frost!


Roo on the trail:


The fireweed has all gone to fluffy seeds:


I have never seen squirrels eating mushrooms until I moved to Alaska. Mushrooms are a big thing among humans here. There are dozens of different kinds, and there mushroom-hunting clubs and trips and mycology lessons at the University. (DL says, "Are they continually looking for new members?" LOL). I'm glad I do not like mushrooms and am not tempted by them!


DL and his ladies:


Look at the gorgeous colors!


Starbuck on the trail:


Cricket on the trail:


The water is nice to drink again! All rain-fed and clean!


The leaves of the blueberry plants turn a gorgeous brilliant red-orange:


So do the dwarf dogwoods:


Roo sniffing with her tongue:


Some shrooms:


A straight view down the powerline trail:


Dogs on the trail!