rain

temperatures more indicative of autumn have arrived...and along with it significant rains...

the last time it rained, nine days ago, this rain gauge collected just over an inch and a half of precipitation...

today it shows five...a three and a half inch rainfall today in the middle of my back yard...

the one on the north side between the housed uncharacteristically held a shade less than the other on the fourteenth of the month...

today, characteristically, it is topped out...we have had some rain today...

the evidence in on the petals, silks, and ears...

the hawthorn tree in the front yard stood out sharply as i pulled in the drive this evening...

the bees that gathered the nectar in the hawthorn blooms this past may...

will help feed the birds as winter deepens...nature is a web of interconnections...this one is so obvious i can see it plainly...there are others, more complex and obscured that human cognition has little hope of finding, much less understanding...time to relinquish the idea of control and be part.