Autumn Walk

I stroll along dogs running ahead then waiting for me as I peer at the marvels nature spreads before me. A hollow in a trunk is home to a squirrel who chatters angrily at me for intruding. Lush yellow wheat fields ears waving golden and plump in blazing sunlight The crops are ready for harvesting full and plump maize for animal feed, corn for our bread and barley to make beer. There will be a merry celebration when harvest is finally in Flush of sunflowers standing so stately and tall birds feeding on seeds All these seeds and berries now ripened and being feasted on by birds and rodents stocking up on winter fat to see them through to spring . Now it is time to hibernate the long cold days of Winter away until once again Winter relents turning into Spring