Fall Challenge Day 7 Surprise!

I am so so so sorry I forgot to post the surprise I had for Saturday!! Instead I guess I'll do it today. We are at our grandparents' house right now and we just arrived this afternoon. Their house is in middle Tennessee. Now for my surprise! *DRUM ROLL* It's a poem that I wrote!!

"Fall"

The leaves are turning,
The frost is coming,
The time for cold weather is here.
The woods are full of the squirrels storing nuts,
And the birds and mice and deer.
The rolling hills are turning gold,
The year is growing old.
You hear a honking
And see geese sailing high
In the blue and never ending sky.
This is the time when Earth recovers.
It's nice and beautiful for us all.
This is Fall.

I hope you liked it!! I got the idea in the shower. I seem to get some pretty good ideas in the shower. I wonder why that is....

This is our barn, by the way. :)

Fall Challenge: Day 6!!!

We're almost done..... I have a surprise for the last day (which is tomorrow)!

This is what our field looks like in fall. Isn't it pretty? Our property used to be a horse farm. With a huge barn!

This is a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker on a Sweet Gum. Sapsuckers winter here, so these birds mean fall is here!

Fall Challenge Day 5!!!

We are now more than half way done with this challenge. I hope I have enough photos! Here are mine for today:

Fall makes me think of Halloween. This is my older brother's (his nickname on this blog is Gareth) jack o' lantern. It's a cyclops. :)

Yes, I know these are my chickens. But my 8-year-old brother (George by nickname. You know, like Curious George :) told me to. I couldn't resist. I love my chickens! It is sort of a fallish photo, though, because there are leaves on the ground. I should call it: "Chickens in Fall".  :D

Fall Challenge: Day 4!!!

It's Day 4! Time for more photos!!

This is only a Crape Myrtle, but it was really pretty. I loved the way the light shone through the leaves in the late afternoon.

These are some hickory trees in our yard. This is what November looks like to me. These trees are in a part of our yard that is landscaped with azaleas. We call it Azalea Garden. Some of the azaleas are encore azaleas, so they bloom in the fall too. Here is a photo:

Fall Challenge: Day 3

Fall Challenge day 3 has come. That means I have to post another photo. (Or two.) Here they are:

These are Frost Asters. They're called that because they appear around the first frost. They are also called Michaelmas Daisies.

This is another Sweet Gum leaf. This one was so pretty, I had to take a photo. Of course, most of the leaves are gone now, but this was taken last month.
I love fall colors. They seem to last longer here than in New York. It's snowing in New York right now, probably.
I love this challenge!

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