Fall Photos

It's been awhile since I posted, but here are some shots from the past few weeks. 

 After all the September rain, things were looking rain foresty again.

 The fungi were popping and we were collecting all the chanterelle mushrooms we wanted (not these).

 The vine maples gave us our autumn color.

 "Driving Miss Daisy".  Daisy has been a real delight.  She continues to figure out what pleases us and does her best.

 The view from the living room.  We love the big leaf maple on the left with and without leaves.

 We have so much wood!  The alders keep falling, and we keep cutting and splitting.  Daisy finds this area exciting due to the rodents that take shelter here. We also have bats sleeping in our stacks of wood.

 This is what happened when I tried taking a selfie with Daisy.

We saw a number of coral mushrooms in September.

 We had very little rain after the first week of October which made for bike rides, hikes, and romps at the beach.  This is the elk forage area about 2 miles down the road.

The tidal bay in Yachats is our go to dog beach.  This is low tide and that is the town.

 For Halloween, we dressed up and went to a poetry reading in Florence. 

The venue was this little art center and gallery.

 Gail and Daisy spotted this female pileated woodpecker below the house. It stayed long enough for me to grab my camera and head on down.

The Great Blue Heron that has been a fixture on the river here has lost its charm.  In a matter of a few hours at night, it ate up most of our goldfish.  We saw a couple fish left out of the roughly 20 we had, but now its been days since I've seen any.  We have watched those fish grow since we moved here and in a flash, they're gone.  I've added some hides for any fish that might be left.

 We have had a flock of 4 hooded mergansers patrolling our stretch of the river, lately,  and Gail and Daisy spotted them again this morning.  I took these shots from the living room deck in rather dark light.  Hood up!

 Hood down.  A male and 2 females here.

The lovely foursome.