maple leaves

goldenrod

cardinal, female ruby-throated hummingbird, and American goldfinch

sisters sharing secrets in the woods

Some leaves are beginning to change--the earliest I can remember it happening--, and the sky above is the clear, vibrant blue of autumn. Last week the temperatures were cool, fall-like, but according to the calendar it is summer until September twenty-third (of course, the trees were bare this year until the very last days of April, and we were still buried under snow on the first official day of spring). It has been a beautiful summer and also the most difficult one for my family that I can recall. Seasons can be confusing. But time rushes on and soon we will return to the familiar routine of lessons and books, baking and making. Tonight, we're staying up to watch the Perseid meteor shower.

“He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11