Last week I was commenting about how that fall was here, but there weren’t a lot of leaves on the ground. I did get some pretty nice photos from some bright coloured leaves I saw on one of my regular walks, but there weren’t many leaves falling.
Fall means the leaves should fall, right?
Today while walking I had a nice cushion of fallen leaves as carpet on my walk. I love that feel, the sound, the smell.
Here’s a quick shot of one of the pathways I walked today.
The weather is really turning towards winter, bypassing Fall in the process, and it looks like though there were some leaves changing and falling, it’s pretty much the edge of winter.
One of the things I’m always watching on my walks at night are the fish in the small river. These days we hardly see any, maybe one or two.
A short time ago I didn’t have time for my regular long walk through the park, so I walked the night course we usually walk together. The weather was nice and still day time, so I was looking forward to checking for the fish. I was not disappointed. The water was teeming with them!
They’re also quite large.
Here are a couple of shots from the bridge and short video clips:
This fall seems to have almost slipped by without seeing much change in the color of the leaves, but this past week while I was walking in the park near my home I saw some very bright red and more fallen leaves than I’ve seen for a bit.
I remember well when I would walk those paths and the smell of the sun-dried leaves was heavy in the air, and the ground was soft from the plush piles of leaves.
This fall the weather has been unusually warm until the past week, and there didn’t really seem to be much of a change or many leaves falling. I guess we’re about to get back on track now though.
Here are a few pictures from this week:
I was outside in my garden and spotted a visitor working his way (okay, might have been ‘her’ way) across the edge of my new canopy. He was not making very good time either.
We usually have a fair number of much larger snails on the deck on any given day after some rain, but this one was the only one I saw and he was rather small. Still very busy working his way to somewhere, but small.
This week was Halloween. Some people don’t realise just how big a holiday, for people of all ages, this has become.
I believe it’s number 3 or 4 for party holidays. So many people want to enjoy a little break from their reality, I’m sure it is only going to continue to grow in popularity.
I did notice at the 100 Yen Shop though that on the night before Halloween, the aisle behind the Halloween decorations was already loaded with Christmas items. I’m definitely not ready for that yet.
Still, I had a little fun in class with some holiday related vocabulary exercises and I did show my horns hehheh
Here’s a photo of that and my oldest son’s costume he wore to school that day.
