Middle Season 29 - 2026

 

Common sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale) is a North American native perennial flower known for bright yellow, orange, or red daisy-like blooms that appear in late summer and fall

Sunday Oct 11. 

Bemis 79*

1. The smell of dried leaves in the forest leaves twirling down through the air the sound of Blue Jay
2. Hawksbill mountain
3. Queen Anne Lace dry lots of poison ivy changing color, climbing tree
4. Some sidewalks covered. Sometime a carpet. Some locust trees mostly yellow showing beginning of tree skeletons. 

MK in day

Monday

1. Burning bush igniting
2. Deep work. Culling the shallow. Learn fast. Produce things. Deliberate practice. Attention residue. Serendipity   Lag measures. Leaf measures. Day within a day. How to live on 24 hours a day

• Acts of Allegiance by Peter Cunningham: A twisty, psychological espionage thriller that Keefe notes for its portrayal of an Irish civil servant caught in the cat-and-mouse games of British intelligence. [1]
• Good Friday by Lynda La Plante: Keefe highlights this procedural crime novel (a prequel to her famous Prime Suspect series) for its visceral depiction of the 1970s London bombing campaigns. [1]
• North by Seamus Heaney: While not a novel, Keefe heavily credits this 1975 poetry collection. The book’s title, Say Nothing, is pulled directly from Heaney’s famous poem in this volume, "Whatever You Say, Say Nothing," which captures the pervasive culture of silence and survival during the conflict

1. George packer. The unwinding

Oct 16. FB. 56*. 46* DP

1. Not many leaves left on the cottonwood trees and underneath it sounds like there’s rain falling
2. The Prairie grasses now are yellows and tans. The sound of the wind in all of the leaves here’s a Sycamore all of the time.
3. Lots of brown and yellow leaves down the edges of the path padded with leaves
4. They distinctive bright yellow, turning into brown Hickory leaves. Is it banana yellow not exactly but a distinct shade.  And a great blue heron flies down downstream above the bridge.
5. Following downstream, the water carrying leaves sometimes turning over sometimes spinning held suspended just below the top sometimes floating and Jay cries
6. A couple great big Sycamore leaves, cat size sculptural on the path and in the water ducks stay by the side
7. The dirt forest floor just all yellow and brown orange leave
8. They’re right berries that are deep, blue or black, and a dark stem above the dam from last week are now almost gone, the sky, a turmoil, sometimes the sun, sometimes cloud sometimes big gray clouds, sometimes yellow and red bright light trees against the Gray
9. Not all the leaves in the path below at once right now it’s just those up there, but not here. It’s like streams of water are crossing the path ahead.
10. Low afternoon sun filters thru forest that’s mostly pure yellow

Sat Oct 17

1. First night drops to 30s
2. Back yard scattered e yellow silver maples leaves. 
3. Service berry begins to blush red
4. Pine tree needles thick cover driveway. More fallen than you’d think. 
5. Eastern white pine has 5 bunch needles. Needles flexible. 
6. Red pine has 2 needles per bundle.  Firm needles that break like a matchstick. Both of them are dropping needles now.