A wonderfully slimy white fungus growing on a log in the swamp.

And on a nearby stump, clumps of brown mushrooms.

The streambed is beginning to fill up - so far mostly from the amount of rain, but soon the whole watershed will fill, beginning with the pond on the uphill part of the property, it's overflow running downstream to fill the sphagnum bog, then the water winds through the flat forest area, with this being the last part to get the water before it goes into the pond across the driveway. It's always interesting to watch the progress.

The climbing hydrangea is dried and brown, and the leaves are mostly gone. In the background, the willow glows golden. Autumn.

And with autumn comes the wind! The willow sways with the wind - brrrr!

Mushroom season just keeps going on and on! These slimy-looking mushrooms have come up where a different type was growing earlier.

Today was supposed to be a big stormy day, but luckily we were spared most of the wind, and only got the rain instead. The birch trees are still quite yellow, viewed through the car window with raindrops running down.

HAH! Well, here is a blast from the past - my friend Fred sent this scan of one of our pig roasts - right foreground is the pit we dug for roasting the pig. This has to be about 30 years ago - how is it possible we are so slim and dark-haired?? But, you can see that I was taking photos then, too. This makes me want to dig through my boxes of prints and see if I can find the shots I took on this day.

I took this shot yesterday (the middle small photo below), but got a book out of the library about playing around in Photoshop, so here is a result. I changed the saturation, and used one of the artistic filters, added a black border and drop shadow, then put it on a beige mat. Always fun to learn new things!