Fall comes with it's own shade of light, doesn't it? It's a warmer, at a lower angle and altogether just more relaxed, more peaceful light .. at least that's how I feel about it.
Some has to do with the fact that my blue peepers do not like bright, harsh light, it makes me feel slightly irritated/anxious and sometimes triggers a headache.

It's a coming and going of ducks and geese all day long at the little lake behind us.
Having a little rest, something to eat and drink and off they go again .. the south is calling!

                                            

                                            

At night we hear coyotes howling quite often lately but I seldom see one during the day.
This one quickly moved through the newly mowed fields in the early morning hours, probably looking for a little snack before calling it a day .. or a night, in this case:

 

                                       

I picked the last of the strawberries last week and decided to donate the plants to the compost heap afterwards.
I've tried my best for 2 years to grow some but for all the time I spent to nurture and water them we get very little in return. Maybe 2 hands full, if at all, so they're history. Been there, done that!

I still have some herbs going, the lemon-mint has done especially well, and my lettuce-mix likes the cooler weather and all of a sudden decided to grow!
I'm waiting a little longer for my sweet potato vines to start dying down, after which I will dig them up. Let's hope there are some!

The days are definitely getting shorter but the weather is still holding. 

The temperatures are just about perfect in the low 70s, and in the evenings we can sit outside to enjoy that 'golden hour' which now pretty much coincides with our 'happy hour' around 5pm ..

We can not really see the sun setting, it hides behind the trees before that, but we can see it's pretty orange glow peeking through the branches ..

I know, it's a short blog this week, another week of 'nothing-much-has-happened', but we're enjoying the peacefulness of a busy summer quieting down ..

It's almost here ... fall!