Feeling Like Fall

In the photograph, above 
is how our family room mantel looked 
for most of the summer.
Now, in the top photos, here is the mantel dressed for fall!
I spent some time playing around with the old books
which had been my mother and father’s.
Some are lovely poetry books
like one by 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
another is a book of 
Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

But, perhaps my favorite is my mom and dad’s old
A Field Guide to Western Birds
by Roger Tory Peterson
1961 


Every year I keep an eye out for new birds coming to our 
backyard birdfeeder to see if anybody new
shows up!
When a new species does come along,
migrating south for winter or heading back home during the spring,
I enter it onto a sheet of paper
with the date I noticed.
It’s very exciting to have new feathered friends coming over for dinner!