The One-Day-Late Spook

One-Day-Late Spook

Halloween Spook © 2007

Rather a drab late autumn field…until you check out the visitor in the corner. What do you see?

Photo taken in a haunted field at Owens Park, a Nature Conservancy in Madison, Wisconsin on Halloween morning, 2007.

 

Autumn Reflections

pa182206.jpg

Reflection in Indian Lake © 2007

“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On a calm, misty morning, these autumn colors were reflected in Indian Lake. Photographed at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin as the sun peeked over the hill. October 20, 2007

 

The Non-Conformist

pa232810.jpg

Gazing Upwards © 2007

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~ Christopher Morley

Love that, in a mass of autumn trees in oranges and yellows, there is one tree still holding out for a few more days of summer. Photo taken at Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin on a perfect late October day

 

Double Yellows

pa182289.jpg

Double Reflection © 2007

Deep blue lake trapping
Reflection in calm waters
Double yellow orbs.

Just after sunrise on a calm, mid-October morning.
Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin

Taps at Moon Rise

pa232928.jpg

Moonrise at Twilight © 2007

Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. ~ ‘Taps’

This late October’s full moon is known as the Hunter’s Moon. The moon rise reminded me of the lyrics from the well-known military song, ‘Taps’.

Taken at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin on October 25, 2007. I photographed both the sunset and the moonrise