The gals got the ham ready for the oven. Rutabagas were executed and boiled up. Wonderful odours began to fill up the Hermitage.

Warrior Princess lay in the weeds watching the carousing on the porch. Cats have more dignity than humans, you know.

The gals got busy in the kitchen and I got out of their way. Don went for a nap so I went for walkies about the Hermitage. I really liked this placid (...)

A last glance upward to bask in the fading glow of Fall. Storms approach. There will soon be costumed children to growl at and then give candy to. Win (...)

I got the urge to visit Mud Lake prior to the arrival of superstorm Sandy. I wanted once last look at the fall colours before the storm hit. Come alon (...)

A riot of colours filled the woods, no matter in which direction you looked.

Just for Val.

While the colourful canopy tended to attract the eye, rocks and stumps tended to attract feet. After a couple of near falls, I switched to my back-up (...)

These tiny shrooms were cute. I found most of the shrooms on the bio-interface between hard Maple and Pine enclaves.

I was taking this shot with a Chickadee figuratively looking over my shoulder at the time.

A different shroom in the same location.

One of my buddies with a keen interest in what I was doing.

A panorama of shrooms colonizing a fallen log. A different perspective gives them an alien aspect.

The rest of the log was bare so I decided to try a maple leaf abstract montage.

I was not expecting to find this dark shroom brooding in the forest detritus.

A little further along the same log ... makes me wonder what happened here.

Brown family group out enjoying the day.

I was also not expecting this late blooming flower of some unknown weed.

There are mossy areas between the Maple and Pine stands of trees. Different shrooms live here.

That afternoon, Don took Donna and I for a tour around the region to see the glorious fall colours. He wasn't kidding. The colours were glorious. I to (...)