Good Diwali and a Photo Blog of Autumn For You Today

My goals today have already taken a beating, and it's only a little after 6:00 am! First, I awakened at my usual 3:15 am and settled down to my morning meditation. I'm working through a workshop on "Insight Timer" called "10-Day Setting Boundaries Challenge" which has been pretty good, but afterward, I started in on my daily puzzles and got wrapped up in those for too long. 

Let me start by wishing a good Diwali to those 
of my friends who may celebrate the day. I've 
always been fond of Diwali - a festival of light. 

Then I scurried down, changed into my exercise clothes and did a quick 2-1/4 mile on the treadmill followed by a shower. I got dressed for work, made my morning cup of tea, and settled down to write this, almost 1/2 hour later than usual because I got caught up in my on-line jigsaw puzzle game that I've been playing for several months now. I can officially declare that I'm as relaxed as someone running 30-45 minutes late on their daily schedule can be - LOL. 

I've mentioned my neighborhood wild turkeys before, 
but last week on Monday they were in my neighbor 
Chris's yard when I got home from work. So I snapped 
a few pictures before heading into the house. 

As you can tell, they've grown up quite nicely. They'd 
make a great Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner, but I'd 
rather not have to kill anything, or pluck it, clean 
it, etc. No, the turkeys are completely safe with me - LOL. 

So what I'm doing today is giving you a lot of photos - Autumn photos, mostly from yesterday in my backyard, but a few from my neighborhood. And my neighborhood turkeys are back. They were in my yard two weeks ago, and one week ago they were in my neighbor's yard. I got a couple of photos of the turkeys to share with you too. So, today is a photo blog. 

I'm going to start with this tree, which isn't mine, 
but is in my neighborhood. I consider this a 
tree that just can't make up its' mind. It has 
yellow leaves, it has a lot of red leaves, and there 
are still some green leaves on it also. It's truly 
a tree for all seasons - LOL. 

The rest of the photos are from my backyard 
yesterday afternoon. It was a beautiful day, 
warm and breezy. We still have a lot of leaves 
left on our trees, so it wasn't worth the effort 
to bother raking yet. We'll end up doing that 
in the cold, as we usually do *sigh*. 

This red tree is at the southwestern corner of 
my house. It's a lovely spray of colors to brighten 
up the upper back yard. The open expanse ahead 
of us is usually filled with ferns. Of course, they 
are long dead now - killed by the frosts and 
cold temps we've already had. 

Ahead of me when I'm sitting in my chair on the 
patio is this lovely golden tree. You can see a 
few of my maple tree's red leaves above me, 
trying to photo bomb the golden one. LOL

A bit to the south of the golden tree are my taller trees where 
my squirrels love to nest and my hawks also loved those 
trees to perch in. My Tuff-Shed utility shed is on the 
right side. 

To my right and above me is my silver maple - a 
tree that's getting on in years, and not as healthy 
as it used to be, but it's a gorgeous tree and we're 
hoping it can hang in there for a few more years. 
It always gives me glorious golden-orange leaves. 

So, there you have it. A photo blog for a change without a lot of chit-chat. I wish all of you a wonderful Fall (or Spring) day and a day of joy. I'll be back tomorrow, and maybe be more on-time and on schedule too. Shocking, I know! LOL Slava Ukraini.