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November 2009 
leaf kicking
Posted on Nov 7th, 2009
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Terrill
Terrill
A slip-length piece of light drapes itself over shimmering cedar boughs... could this mean the rain has stopped?
summer stacking
As they fall around the stacked stones, summer heat is remembered.
finding its place
Deer fencing left to finish off the section behind the courtyard. Time waits for no one.
layered offerings
Layers of offerings for winter shelter and then soil.
twisting as if the wind still blows
Bent, twisted and wound around - they hang on so that even in their stillness they are braced against the wind.
May you be living your vision today and everyday:)
Terrill
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wonderful colors! most of ours have fallen already
thanks suni - most of our leaves have fallen as well but we have a few around our property that are always a bit later… I love this time of year. Though on the west coast the rains start and I find I miss the crispness of more winter climates.
do you get much snow out there on the west? we get lots here because of Superior.. whoo hoo for lake effect snow! all big and fluffy!
We get some snow most years between December and February. Last year we had a couple of feet and it lasted a whole 3 weeks. Where my parents are there is snow on the ground now and it will stay in the shade until about the first week of May… that much snow and winter I do not miss.
Your photos are beautiful, as are your words. Thank you.
Thanks rudyan for your kind words and stopping by. Sometimes I just can't help myself. I was going to sweep the floor, scrub the bathroom and such. Instead, I slipped outside an hour before night fall and got lost in the falling leaves.
Great photographs. I love the cairn. Your words are exquisite.
Thanks Laurie… my “words” often have creatively spelling - but I think I have now corrected most of them. I miss having my editor at my fingertips to do a quick read before posts go out. I am glad you enjoyed the post just the same.
Blessings, Terrill. I have been away from the forum for a little while, and knew that when I visited you here that my spirit would be light, and so it is. These are beautiful photographs and bring to mind the Autumn season hereabouts that was sorely missed by a strange October, where the cold and rain/snow came and the leaves just sort of plopped off the branches. Now that the branches are barren, the warmth returns, reminiscent of a lost Autumn.
May Grace continue to follow you and your beloved.
Peace~
So lovely of you to come by Nahnni… Thank for your blessings and sharing your experience. lost expectations of a season are I think truly hard to hard to recover from.
Nahnni, great to have you back!
Terrill, always love your pictures. Those stone cairns always fascinate me. I saw one while driving the other day.
Laurie and Nicole, now that both of you have mentioned “cairns” I need to clarify. Though this LOOKS like a cairn, it is the remains of a stone fence post that was tipped into the ditch before we bought our property. My grandson (who is six) has always been fascinated by this pile of stone and loose rocks. He has also admired and been curious about the stacked stones along a neighbour's driveway that resemble Inukshuk (Inuit Statue). So one hot July day this last summer, my partner and my grandson had an IDEA. Off they went down the road to study the neighbour's Inukshuks. Later in that afternoon I came out to see what they were doing and our very own Inukshuk had been created on top of the rubble in the ditch.
so beautiful!
_^_
Thanks mimi! So nice of you to come by:)
Terrill - You've got your very on Inukshuk – that's pretty darn slick. Here is a LINK to what Wikipedia has to say – cool!
Well, I stand corrected… I guess it is a cairn… defined as A cairn (carn in Irish, carnedd in Welsh, càrn in Scots Gaelic) is a manmade pile of stones, often in a conical form. The Inuit erect human-shaped cairns, or inunnguaq (or An inuksuk - plural inuksuit) as milestones or directional markers in the Canadian Arctic. Thank you Laurie for your time and research to take us just a little deeper than falling leaves.
Terrill - I think that people from a multitude of ethnicities have used piles of stones as markers – and other things – since the dawn of time. They simply use the word in their language that means 'pile of stones' or 'marker.'
Back at the end of August there was a nice discussion about cairns – piles of stones – in the discussion thread on my blog.
yes, Terrill, thanks, knew it was an Inukshuk but had forgotten the word. Love those things.
thanks Laurie for the link and Nicole, I have to google “stacked stones people” every time I want to use the word Inukshuk :)
whew, very reassuring! :)