a fever broken, windows open for cool nights: finally, it's fall #haiku

Went on a #mushroom foraging walk the other day. Convenient accidental dime for scale. 🍄📸

it's too damn hot out! attempting to summon fall: pumpkin spice candle #haiku

all the rest are spent with tired petals trimmed in brown late summer’s last rose its scent already fading with the shortening days #tanka#poetry

autumn's first monarch a dwindling migration yet hope still flutters #haiku

quiet as the change from one day to another a season ending #haiku#poetry#autumnale

a small-town graveyard thin headstone blurred by moss and time stately monument name still etched crisp and clear both bones now, long forgotten #tanka

I took this 🍄📸 for the mushrooms, but it's interesting to see these sun, moon, star, & geometric designs dotting logs along the trail, like little glass trail blazes.

the windchimes hang still only the cicadas sing to a leaden sky #haiku

I didn't plan or prune it this way; it just came out perfectly aligned. I've deadheaded it several times now and it keeps bouncing back. #flowers#gerbera