Dreams Can Randomly Vanish

"Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earth has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can randomly vanish!"

~Mehmet Murat ildan 

I'm feeling quiet. Alan and I were nearly in a car accident last night. We were coming back from Nevada City, on highway 99, when we came upon a car accident that had just occurred. It was three cars, in the center lane, and it looked bad. As we slowed down to pass, the car in the lane next to us, hit one of the cars that had just been hit! It hit the car at about 50mph without any brakes that we could see or hear. Parts of both cars flew everywhere, it spun and nearly hit us. It was on my side of the car, and I thought it was going to kill me.

 It was that close to my door. As it was, we ended up running over part of the fender that came off of the vehicle that hit the other cars. I am lucky and grateful to be alive. Seriously, I am not a fan of our vacation this year, and yet at the same time, if looked at through the lens of a slightly different perspective, it could be looked at as autumn is protecting me. After all, I can say this was the year I didn't die in a car accident on hwy 99, on October 25th, 2019. So with that perspective in mind, I am going to enjoy that beautiful sunset from a couple days ago, and just be grateful for every day!

#34 Leaf Of The Day

October 26th, 2019

Stockton, California

Nikon

~Mood: Rattled

~Me 

 

The Lady On The Beach In Autumn

"Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful."

~Avijeet Das

 #33 Leaf Of The Day

October 25th 2019

Sacramento, Ca

Nikon

~Mood: Quiet

~Me 

Family Day 2019

"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."

~Remy de Gourmont

It was Family Day yesterday. That day we set aside, while we were on our honeymoon, to have with our dreamed about children. Alas, we never had children, but we never missed our annual Family Day outing, because while we never had little ones to share this special October day with, we still have each other. We are a family. He and I and our fur babies. It's a shame cats don't enjoy jaunts in the car the way dogs do, because it would be fun to have them along, sound asleep in the backseat, after spending the day at the pumpkin patch, but they are pretty great to come home to as well, because we are a family!

#32 Leaf Of The Day

October 24th 2019

Grass Valley, California

Nikon

~Mood: Happy

~Me   :)

October... A Haiku

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

~Rainbow Rowell

Attachments

October

 (A Haiku)

Late Afternoon Light

Saffron Crimson And Purple

Heal Me October 

#31 Leaf Of The Day

October 23rd 2019

Stockton/Nevada City, Ca

Nikon

~Mood: Quiet

~Me  :)

 

#30 Leaf Of The Day

#30 Leaf Of The Day

October 22nd 2019

Nevada City, CA

Nikon

"I'm so glad I live in a world

 where there are autumns."

-L.M. Montgomery

Just a short post today. Vacations are busy things, and there's so much going on, including some home maintenance mishaps. You know how inanimate objects can all of a sudden scream "Fuck you, BITCH" like no other entity in life!

More later.

👽

Mood: Okay

Me

A Particular Kind Of Afternoon In Autumn

St. Comice Catholic Church

Nevada City, California

October 20th, 2019

 

"There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn. A golden light drapes itself over the world of that hour. It falls through the afternoon sky, fine and faint as a swirl of cigarette smoke caught in the wind, nearly transparent. So sweet, that light, insisting softly, goldly against the windows."

~Ayana Mathis

The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie

We took a long ride yesterday, in search of autumn, and we finally found it, in Grass Valley, and Nevada City. But it was Nevada City that was really showing off the October beauty. Every street corner, ever curve of every park. I didn't do my best work yesterday, but autumn isn't quite a month old, so give me time, and some luck, and I will try my best to find the joy in the song of autumn.

#29 Leaf Of The Day

October 21st 2019

Nevada City, California

Nikon

~Mood: Tired

~Me   :)

 

Art About Town: Stockton... Sculptures Of Stribly Park

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days

 which occur more frequently in memory, than in life."

 ~P.D. James

A Taste For Death

The depression has a strong hold this year, no doubt, but I am fighting it off. Yesterday I got up, and got my cameras, a and forced myself out of the house. I visited downtown Stockton, and did some light camera work with some lighthearted public art! Always a mood lifter! I found these jolly fellows, way on the other side og HWY 4, in Stribly Park, near the Community Center. They are simply called, the Stribly Park Sculptures. Which is fine, but I kinda think the guy in the back is named George! Shrug. Don't know why. Just do. The leaves don't have much color, but maybe it's me, maybe I am just not seeing the color, Don't know which, but I do know that those guys made me smile! It's a beginning! And while I was at the park I found this leaf collection. Beautiful. That made me smile too!

 #28 Leaf Of The Day

October 20th 2019

Berkeley, California

Nikon 

~Mood: Quiet

~Me