Fall is in full swing these days. Quite often the mornings are starting foggy and temperatures during the day are not above the the high sixties. Some of the clearer nights have been dipping into the low 40s!

The fields and forest are all in fall colors and some trees have already lost most of their leaves!

I can't stop taking pictures of our surroundings, it' s so pretty right now, especially when the sun comes out and sets everything aglow:

  

There are a lot of small birds at the feeders at the moment. Fattening up for the winter I presume.
They have to be careful though since they're 'watched like a hawk' (yes, pun intended) by the Kestrels!
 (Which are falcons by the way)

The sun rises later and in a different spot right now and sets my inside fall decorations in a pretty orange light:

                     

But my outside decorations are not faring as well .. they are under attack by the ground squirrels!
Look at my poor straw-man here!

          

Every night they nibbled a little more off his hat, and did away with his left 'hand', until one morning, in broad daylight mind you, they took his pants!
The #$@%^! buggers!

And I don't know why but all of a sudden we are under attack ourselves by lady-bugs!

 

I tried to take a picture of them when they all congregated on our back window in the late afternoon (hence the orange light) but my camera had a hard time choosing between the light, my reflection against the dark window and the bugs ...

                                    

                                       

There are lots of them inside as well. No clue where they're coming from. We have screens on all windows.
At least they're generally thought of as being lucky. I'll take it!
(And I rather have them than spiders!)

A Google search told me this:
Ladybugs must find a warm, comfortable place to hang out during the colder months of the year.  They'll swarm inside during the early Autumn when it's getting cold, but it's still warm enough for them to fly. They're attracted by natural wood and siding and homes with lots of cracks or light colored areas (our RV is white and the back window faces south) on homes that are warmed by the sun.

And look at these beautiful eggs!

                           

As you can see I bought them from 'Dutch Delight', the dutch guy who lives in Willamina (only 3 minutes from us) and who bakes all kinds of dutch delicacies.
I think his prices are too high, and I bake almost everything he sells myself, but his eggs are going for the going rate of fresh eggs around here ($5 a dozen, although I think that's quite high as well!) so I ordered some.
And they're so pretty!

Well, I think that was all for the week. Here's a shot of this month's full moon, the Hunter moon, which coincidentally is another of this year's (four) Super-moons:



The October moon gets it's name from its historic status as a symbol for hunters to begin preparations for winter, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, which also noted its sometimes referred to as a blood or sanguine moon.

You learn something new every day!
(although I sort of new this but forgot, as I seem to do a lot these days .. sigh ..)