NOTICED A SUBTLE CHANGE IN THE LANDSCAPE THIS MORNING

A cloud cover this morning prevented the Sun's rays from bringing the dazzle out of Autumn's colorful leaves.  Still colorful of course, but without the snappy sparkle.  No matter, Pheebs and I were out anyway snapping a few pics here and there and keeping an eye out for corn spills.  Our bucket came home empty again.  Slipped around Richard and Gayle's place but they had company so we kept right on a goin'. (I'm having a problem captioning the pictures tonight)

Thanks to a good night's sleep finally, Kelly felt a tad better today except that her back is giving her a lot of problems right now.  Very painful!!  Her upcoming endoscopy scheduled for Friday afternoon has been moved up to Friday morning so we're quite thankful for that.  This way we'll skip the Friday afternoon chaos in the parking garage and London's 5 o'clock rush.  Of course, London's rush hour isn't anywhere close to bigger city rush hours but when you live in a quiet place like we do in this Bayfield area, any place else is just sheer madness.  Oh dear, and to think for years we were hauling a 37' Motorhome towing a car through or around cities like, Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City, El Paso, Tuscon, Phoenix, Yuma, and a few times Houston, Tampa, Cincinnati, and Detroit.  Oh my, it stresses me just thinking about those times.  I'm 'almost; quite content enough to be right where we are.  And yet, if we had another chance to go again....I would be mighty excited about the prospect:))

A MAPLE SYRUP SHACK IN THE BUSH

A BUSH LANE

 ANOTHER BUSH LANE

I noticed a subtle change in the landscape this morning as Pheebs and I cruised along slowly through the countryside.  I think our Autumn colors have peaked and I am beginning to see a change as trees are beginning to drop their leaves.  I think in a couple weeks, with gusting winds and probable rain, trees will be stripped of their leaves and the gray sullen days of November will be well upon our doorstep.  Oh woe is us:((

THE COLORFUL BUSH LINES ARE SLOWLY BEGINNING TO CHANGE

Within minutes of a gray-looking walk around our Park's pond this afternoon, the skies suddenly cleared and our colorful world was bathed in warm sunshine. All was right with the world again..... well, at least for a few more days or weeks.

 WITHOUT SUNSHINE IT WAS KIND OF A COLORLESS DAY

FOR A WHILE IT LOOKED AND FELT LIKE A GRAY NOVEMBER DAY THIS AFTERNOON

THERE WERE DEFINITELY MORE LEAVES ON OUR ROAD TODAY THAN YESTERDAY

I wasn't able to caption some of my photos in this post because of what I expect is probably a Blogger glitch.  Whatever it is, I hope it is cleared up by tomorrow.........Last night after publishing my post I again headed out into the countryside for half an hour to stand under the starry sky while the weather is still good.  Saw a very bright greenish-tinged meteorite come down in the northwest sky.  Probably the biggest one I've ever seen.  Maybe it went 'ker-splash' into Lake Huron.  I found a few more constellations as well.  Perseus, the Pleides,  (Subaru's emblem)  Cygnus the Swan also referred to as 'The Northern Cross', and Aquila the Eagle.  The Moon wasn't up so the sky was very dark.  If only these aging eyes of mine were able to clearly see all the stars I once could see years ago.  My eyes' minor cataracts are not yet at the point where they will do surgery to correct my vision.

Al's Music Box:)) The Wanderer is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion and released on his 1961 album, 'Runaround Sue'. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a traveling man and his many loves. The song is ranked number 243 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  Maresca had co-written Dion's previous number-one hit, "Runaround Sue", but originally intended "The Wanderer" to be recorded by another group, 'Nino and the Ebb Tides'. They passed on it in favor of another Maresca song, so Dion was given it as the B-side of his follow-up single, "The Majestic", a song which his record company had chosen for him. The record was turned over by radio DJs who preferred "The Wanderer", which duly entered the US charts in December 1961 and rose to number 2 in early 1962 (behind "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler). It also reached number 10 in the United Kingdom and number one in Australia. The song was recorded with an uncredited background vocal group, the Del-Satins, in a rockier style than Dion's earlier hits with the Belmonts.  Musicians on the original recording included Bucky Pizzarelli and Johnny Falbo on guitars, Jerome Richardson on alto sax, Buddy Lucas on tenor sax, Milt Hinton on bass, and Panama Francis on drums.  Dion said of "The Wanderer": At its roots, it's more than meets the eye. "The Wanderer" is black music filtered through an Italian neighborhood that comes out with an attitude. It's my perception of a lot of songs like "I'm A Man" by Bo Diddley or "Hoochie Coochie Man" by Muddy Waters." But you know, "The Wanderer" is really a sad song. A lot of guys don't understand that. Bruce Springsteen was the only guy who accurately expressed what that song was about. It's "I roam from town to town and go through life without a care, I'm as happy as a clown with my two fists of iron, but I'm going nowhere." In the Fifties, you didn't get that dark. It sounds like a lot of fun but it's about going nowhere.  However, on Maresca's original demo of the song, the lyrics were "with my two fists of iron and my bottle of beer", and the change to "with my two fists of iron but I'm going nowhere" in fact seems to have been at the record company's insistence.  The song has been categorized as rock and roll, rhythm and blues, pop, and doo-wop. The 1961 recording by Dion was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2017.

A SLIVER OF SUNSHINE POPPED THROUGH THE CLOUDS AND LIT UP THIS MAPLE TREE WHILE WE WERE DRIVING BY

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It Comes With Age::

- You're getting old when you don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.
- Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every man. Isn't that an ironic time for a guy to get those odds?
- Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
-- By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends, and have begun to grow in the middle.
- Someone has described heaven as a family reunion that never ends.
- A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his Doctor instead of by the police.
- Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier.
- You know you're into middle age when you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
- Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
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- Give me two hot dogs.  One with mustard and one without."  "Which one without?"

- Flying in a plane can be a bumpy ride, even while taxiing on the ground. But it's not the pilot's fault. It's not the airline's fault. It's the asphalt.

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