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Sept. 11, 2019 We went for a walk up Brickel Creek on Monday, after, and with, light showers, which had brought on a mushroom bloom. I call them the flowers of fall...

my pancakes look about like this one...'

these resembled chalky stones...

The creek is clear and beautiful, fed off springs on Mt. Spokane...

I don't know most mushrooms. The upper one might be a coral mushroom, sometimes called "chicken of the woods."

This would be a lovely composition even without the mushroom...

This same lovely creek has this trash pile running down to it, remnants of the logging days of 100 years ago. These dot the creek beds wherever the logging occurred. There was even the remnants of a full sized wood cookstove, some pieces of which we carried out for our museum...

yesterday we were walking by the mill pond when we saw this unusual cloud formation... A few minutes later it had dissipated...

This is different from most of our dragonflies...

And here's a hairy woodpecker...

September 16
Since my son has been recovering from ACL surgery, we've had to walk on level ground when going for walks, so the area behind the dam has been a favorite for us. There are a couple areas that seem to be where birds congregate. Several times lately we've seen what I think is a merlin...

It is one of the smallest hawks, not much larger than a robin...

Sept. 24

And the unusual mushrooms keep appearing...

Woo
Wood ducks on the mill pond...

A painted lady butterfly on some of the last dahlias of the summer (frost expected soon)
Sept. 27
With the entry of fall, the frost finally fell last evening, along with a "historic" winter storm moving into the area this weekend, so between the early rains and windstorms I was picking tomatoes by the light of my headlamp. Earlier in the evening a moose ran through our yard, and a few minutes later I saw it leaving the area along the old grade...
The rain was a good test of a roof repair we did on the pottery porch, which has required a number of buckets spread around when it rains... We had to squeeze the repair in yesterday between early outlier showers of this storm system. "All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin..."

books read

Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson. I started reading this author since he was on another mystery cover as a western writer. But for this novel the protagonist is visiting Philadelphia... It was a good mystery, nonetheless, reminding me of Ross MacDonald in weaving a fairly complex plot...

A Death in Eden by Keith McCafferty. Realistic Montana river running with hot and cold mysteries...

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