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| October 2024. |
This is my favorite season, Autumn,
when the leaves crunch under foot and the scent of dead leaves
hangs in the woods. I love that scent more than anything and would
love to find an indoor air freshener that recreates it. My office at
home could smell like coffee, books and dead leaves and I would doze
off before completing another sentence. If there was a fragrance
called Dead Leaves I would mist it all over myself until I was delirious and drunk on it.
Some of the scenery I have seen this week.
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| Photo by me, October 2024. |
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| Photo by me, October 2024. |
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| Photo by me, October 2024. |
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| Photo by me, October 2024. |
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The water rose four feet covering everything in silt during Hurricane Helene. Photo by me, October 2024. |
I noticed this week during a couple of walks in parks near where I live that we are beginning to see hints of color in this part of Georgia at around a thousand feet of elevation. It is typically not peak season here until early November.
Every week, I make miles on the trails somewhere and this was likely the end of shorts season as the second walk of the week was a tad cool at sixty-five degrees with windy conditions. Time now for the sweat pants, long socks and fleece. There have been two mornings with lows in the thirties and there was a frost. The chilly weather is two weeks early and it could not come soon enough as I was ready for the warm weather to end.
Today I finished putting out the pansies for the cold season flowers. I planted much more this year and it took two days to get them planted. Winter here can be rather rainy and gray, which I like, but it is nice to have some color around too.
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