Slow Autumn - Grant Creek, Missoula, Montana

....odd to see an abundance of green leaves AFTER we've had our first snow! But the inevitable change is underway... 

 

Leafstrewn Sidewalk - Missoula, Montana

And Grant Creek flows directly underneath this little stretch of golden carpet....

World Without End - Missoula, Montana

This one's a little obscure: Heedless of appearing daft (welcome to my world, by the way), you are leaning over a faerie lake - well, actually a fist-sized depression in the sidewalk - having stopped to gaze at the smallest golden leaves of autumn, suspended. 
And then you notice the miniature reflection of overhead branches, contributors to this gilded wee marvel. 

World without end, amen.

On Change - Missoula, Montana

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. 
We are like eggs at present. 
And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. 
We must be hatched or go bad."

- C S Lewis (1898-1963), from Mere Christianity, pp 170-171

Hillside Carpet - Missoula, Montana

Temptation was strong to gleefully roll down this hillside carpeted with golden willow leaves. But I resisted - not because it would leave my office-appropriate clothes in an, er, interesting state, but rather because, ever since I was about 10 years old, that whole rolling-spinning thing makes me queasy. Sad, I know.

Fallen Leaf Fun - Missoula, Montana

"It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. 

There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf."

- J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird, page 122

Clark Fork River Sabbath - Missoula, Montana

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."  

- John Buchan (1875-1940)