It seems that over the last three days, rainy cool weather has made the leaves start to turn and fall.  I couldn't resist snapping a few gratuitous nature shots as I walked Lucy this morning.

I've always loved the cup-shaped spiderwebs which show up at this time of year at the edges of fields, especially when they fill with dew and turn into sparkling white nets in the grass.

I also caught a dew-covered katydid perched on a brilliant sassafras leaf.  Although friends nearby had a frost last week, we never dropped below 33 F, and the crickets and katydids started calling again when the nights warmed up.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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