Autumn is coming

We had a great summer this year. Just the right amounts of heat, humidity and rain. Not too hot, maybe 29 at the hottest. And the air is so clean here that it is easy to breathe. We didn't even have a big mosquito problem, they usually come out in June and linger until frost, but this year we were fortunately free of them until late July.

We took a walk through the woods on Thursday and found that autumn is coming nevertheless. Here are some bunchberries at the foot of an old aspen.

This is a little low area where deer like to sleep. The swirls of the trees reminded me of an old landscape.

Our wild raspberry patch still has fruit. We have an area under a giant spruce that is full of raspberry bushes, about the size of my old Toronto yard. I think keeping cattle off this place has made that happen. I can get enough wild berries there to fill a pail, if I can stop eating them that is.

From the willows overlooking the hay fields.

This hill is full of wildflowers in the summer: asters, tiger lilies, toadflax, wild roses.

Another photo that looks like a painting, of the beautiful Kylie.

And perky little Daisy.

The maples are beginning to yellow, the poplar and aspen are still green, the underbrush of hazel, hawthorn and saskatoons is already orange in some places. It is so sad to say goodbye to summer.