Coffee Creek

Coffee Creek's banks are filled with the remnants of bright yellow wild sunflowers that fill the hungry bellies of the waves of migrating birds this time of year.

This morning a flock of Chickadees had descended to enjoy the bounty that the creek and park provide.

Keep an eye on that Sun

With today's equinox our days are soon to become shorter than our nights. The sun this morning rose directly in the east and will set  directly in the west; making it a difficult day to commute east at sunrise or west at sunset.

In my hemisphere, here in the north, the sun will soon begin to rise south of east and will move further south each day until the winter solstice. You don't need to take my word for it---verify this information yourself by marking the sunrise against a building or tree on the horizon or checking it out with a compass. Then watch each morning as it moves further south.

At the winter solstice the sun will stop its southward journey, sit in place at its furthest point for a couple of days, and then start its journey northward to the spring equinox.

Keep an eye on that sun....

Succession of Wildflowers Coming to an end

Touch Me Nots dot the understory of the Indiana woods this morning; bright little flowers dangling in the darkness underneath leaf laden trees.

And joining the Touch Me Nots in their last hurrah of the season are tiny asters, the last flowers of the year that started out with Jack in the Pulpits and May Apples as spring progressed to summer and now into fall.

It's a cycle of time that is easy to miss in this world where our attention is attracted to other things; the parade of the wildflowers.

      

Already Changing

Fall doesn't arrive until Friday but don't tell this tree overlooking a field of gold that it's not here yet.

Hayrides to Come

An old tractor sits next to the barn at Sunset Hill Farm County Park.

Surely, there are a few more hayrides left in those wheels.

September Sky

Here's a cotton candy sky for your Monday morning. Let's have a wonderful week!

Late Summer Sunflowers

Late summer is the time of the asters; both wild and the garden variety. Here is a wild version of a sunflower finding the rising sun with its face.