A drive to remember



I wandered the back roads of Michigan yesterday {and a few in Ohio} and what a glorious trip it was.
The color is spectacular right now and just perfect for taking photos.



Beautiful trees along with corn just waiting to be harvested.

A gorgeous tree ablaze in color.

This is just a little ways down the road from where we live. Maybe a mile or so.
 The farmer was combining and what a perfect photo opportunity.

I thought the bare tree was interesting standing in front of all the gorgeous colored trees.

Again...just down the road a bit...wagons in the field.

Then I came home to THIS...I hopped out of my car after turning into our driveway, aimed the camera
and took a few pics.

Beautiful...I call it God's handiwork!

Love this little building and I almost missed it. I was driving down the road a couple miles away
and saw this shed nestled back into the brush. I had to back up my car to get this photo. No one was on the
road except me, so I could take my time getting the shots I wanted.

BREATHTAKING BEAUTY!

Today hubby and I drove around the county and ended up at the Hillsdale College Arboretum
again and I snapped a few pictures there as well. Not so much color, but pretty walkways.

This was driving down a road in Ohio into a nature preserve called Goll Woods. I want to
drive back over there sometime this week and take the nature walk before all the color is gone.


Blogger  is keeping  me in a constant state of confusion as I wonder each day what issues it will have.
I have had a terrible time leaving comments on some blogs and since last night I am having problems
uploading pictures. Add that to dial-up internet and that is a recipe for disaster. This week the only blogs
 I could leave comments on are the ones that had the pop up box or the whole page, but not the ones
with the comment box under the comments.  What is a girl to do? I can’t sit here all day to leave one
or two comments, so I have to give up even though I hate to. Hopefully they will get resolved soon??



October gave a party...

October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came -

The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,

And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,

Professor Wind the band.

The Chestnuts came in yellow, The Oaks in crimson dressed; The lovely Misses Maple In scarlet looked their best; All balanced to their partners, And gaily fluttered by; The sight was like a rainbow New fallen from the sky.

Then, in the rustic hollow, At hide-and-seek they played, The party closed at sundown, And everybody stayed. Professor Wind played louder; They flew along the ground; And then the party ended In jolly "hands around." ~George Cooper, October's Party

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one autumnal face.

~John Donne

We have taken a couple afternoon drives lately to enjoy the beautiful fall color that shows itself so abundantly in Michigan and the photos in this post

are some that I snapped along the way.

Picture above is heading down the road toward

our home

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

~Nova Bair

Enjoy this beautiful autumn day! Blessings~