Autumn and Antiques

The Mill at Paoli

The Mill at Paoli

Two signs of autumn at an antique shop on Wisconsin’s back roads. A football helmet and a pumpkin.

Traveling Rural Wisconsin

near Shullsburg

Hidden in Southwest Wisconsin

Muted colors, muted sunlight. Feeling a bit muted myself, as the days spin golden one day and gray the next.

Sunlit Forest

Devils Lake State Park

Devils Lake State Park

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem:
There’s not a leaf that falls upon the ground
But holds the joy of silence or of sound,
Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.” ~Laman Blanchard

On one of the few sunny days in late October, we traveled 40 miles north and visited the premier state park in Wisconsin, Devil’s Lake. The lake is a big draw for most visitors, but I prefer the trails through the many hardwood forests. The trees had lost just enough leaves that sunlight was filtering onto the forest floor.

Oak Leaf, Suspended

Trapped

Nothing endures but change. ~~ Heraclitus

Hollow Tree Portrait

Hollow Tree Portrait

All's Good in Middle Earth

Sending a big virtual hug of congratulations to my oldest kid, the one that moved far away to the East Coast and lives in the Big City, but still likes to ponder life while sitting inside a tree. Congrats on passing the Bar Exam.