It's that time of year when the sunrises become spectacular!
Clear skies made for the coldest morning air that we've had in months, the last few days around 45F.

The golden morning hour after sunrise still lingers when I take my walks around 9 and sets everything in that warm yellow light so characteristic of this season.

These horses in the meadow at the very end of our road where I usually turn around, were basking in the morning sun ..

 

                                   

And the trees at the river are turning more and more into their fall-finest ..

I startled a Wood duck:

 

And a little further a tiny Pied-billed Grebe ..

                                      

In a tree near the saw mill this Cooper (or is it a Sharp-shinned, I can't tell) Hawk kept his sharp eye on me:

           

I still get such a kick out of discovering birds around me.
I wish I could identify them a little easier 'on the go', by using one of those bird-sound identifying apps (like the Merlin-app), but my ancient phone apparently doesn't have enough memory to upload any of them.
James suggested buying a newer model phone but my cheapskate nature has troubles discarding something that isn't broken so ..yeah, I'll think about it ..

                                            

On my weekly run to do groceries I pass Farmer John's and seeing all the pumpkins laid out around the building I stopped to take some pictures.

They have some fun and entertaining slides, games and activities set up for the children and I bet they sell a lot of fall-stuff inside at the moment.

Maybe I'll go inside next time to check it out, although last time I did that I was appalled by the cost of everything!
I know .. buy local and 'green' and all of that but it's usually not in my budget, so sue me for buying at Winco/Walmart  ..

I guess this is a rather short post this week but I can't think of much else to report.
All I have left are some food-pics .. cheap fillers indeed but it takes up a lot of a person's time doesn't it, so why not?

                                     

Like I mentioned last week this is a time when you have hutspot, a typical dutch and very filling winter-dish, on one of the cooler evenings ...

And coffee outside in the sun on a beautiful sunny morning:

Apparently tomorrow we'll have one more day in the 70s but after that they're predicting 8 days of cloudy and rainy days ... bring it on, I say. I'm ready!