Cool days :-)

There's nothing like a good fall run to put things back into perspective and make me feel myself again. It's sad how one dog in heat can ruin dreams! :-) Up front in these pictures are Mandy and our new dog, Brie with Jack taking up the rear in wheel.

When I was done running, I took some time to wander around Mogadore Reservoir with Foxy and play with my camera. What colors! I feel the need to repost a poem I wrote years ago, in the fall of 1994:

The Progression of Autumnal Equinox

It is the "x" that stands out, as sure and spirited

as a red-tailed hawk. It is horse riding in

October, the strong animal full-throttle between

the legs of a Libra. It is crow-call and hardening

Earth; it is the last refrain before a flush of

tired leaves give in to their vivid death.

It is roaming into obscure places to meet

Eve of All Hallow. It is tires kicking up leaves,

and smiling silently at their weightless succession

as they fall and scatter behind a girl in a black car.

It is the smell of wood burning stoves

filling noses cold from the days that chill,

that chill. It is an amber hue that glorifies death,

and covers the hills that surround my home.

It is an ancient Celtic whim,

an impetuousness that lands in a series of words

in three stanzas.

October, 1994

Shannon (Mugrage) Miller