SEASON'S END

We've basically arrived at the end of the growing season. There are parsnips that will winter in the ground, some stalks of brusses sprouts remaining to eat, and a few flowerettes of broccoli waiting to be picked.

When it rains, the leaves drop quickly.The colors of all the trees were simply beautiful this fall. I'm almost ready to look forward to the snow falling.

The hairy woodpecker insisted drilling on the outside walls of my office so I had to keep knocking on the inside wall so that he would move away from our home.

This is the first roasted duckling that Karol had ever made. Tasty!

The incision for my brain biopsy was made above my left ear. Three samples were taken to the lab in order to be tested. Final answers will come via neurologist this coming Thursday. My hunch is that the whole illness continues to be a result of the Powassan virus.

Rachel and I went out to the red raspberry row to pick a few more red berries. The season has been so late that we have had ever bearing berries so late in the year.

Karol and Rachel have watched a few good movies.

One of the last apples on our tree. The deer have eaten every one that has dropped, and we have managed to get some that didn't have too many "railroad tracks" throughout the apples.

Many of the oaks have now begun to shed their leaves. That's marking the end of the fall fall.