dahlias, dahlink
from the front yard. some things, they still be a-blooming. and the bees fall asleep.
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dolly sods
saturday sunset found me in the back seat of eddie (g in the front passenger seat, more on that later), bumping over FR19 and FR75 in west virginia on our way to dolly sods. we stopped at a beautiful scenic overlook, and continued on to bear rocks, where we watched the sun go down.
the scenic overlook was something like this:
with views along the trail, so:
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and overlooking the valley, the remains of the summer:
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then, continuing on to bear rocks, walking along the bones of the earth. once entirely forested, dolly sods had been clear cut during the civil war. the sun dried out the peat moss, which eventually caught fire and burned away. what’s left is cranberry bog (in west virginia, no less, something that tweaks what little rhode island nature i have), blueberries, and a host of other berries. we saw little, as the sun was setting.
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later i’ll put up the photos taken during eddie’s adventure on the canaan loop road. including parking in a stream to snap some shots. ah, eddie. so happy to have been lifted, winched, re-geared, and god knows what else has been done to him.
please help me i’m falling…
it’s time to move to the southern hemisphere, where they’re just moving into spring.
fall. pretty time of year, yes. but this year it seems more… autumnal. dying. an ending. and the late sunrises and early sunsets aren’t helping a bit (nor is the knowledge that DST starts late this year, so i’m doomed to an extra several weeks of the late/early combo). yay, seasonal affective disorder. i’m going to have to start sitting under my ultrabright light in the mornings again.
see, now, if i’d been fattening myself up, i could plan on hibernating for the next six months or so. that would rock.