IT IS NOT SOMETHING I TAKE FOR GRANTED

How is it possible for these perfect summer mornings to get any more perfecter.  I think this morning had to be the most perfectist one of all:))

 BLUE SKIES AND LOTS OF SUNSHINE

 APPLE TREE BRANCHES ARE BECOMING HEAVY WITH APPLES

RIPENING APPLES ARE ALWAYS A SURE SIGN OF AUTUMN'S APPROACH

 DOGGY IN A BEANFIELD

Pheebs and I slipped into Bayfield following our usual route.  Not too much going on course but Bayfield is always a nice little community village to cruise through checking out whatever.  Saw the Jeep had been moved up close to a bay at the Bayfield Garage.  I thought to myself that when the mechanic first opened the Jeep door he must have throught, "OMG this guy must use his Jeep to take the hogs to market"!!  Between Pheebs and I, that Jeep interior gets a little serious at times.

 OUR JEEP AT THE BAYFIELD GARAGE THIS MORNING

 THURDAY MORNING OUTDOORS COFFEE KLATCH AT THE SHOPBIKE COFFEE ROASTERS ON BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET

It was fine morning for a slow country road drive southeast of Bayfield to the small Linfield Conservation area on Pavilion Road.  I am usually able to find a few photos along the hedgerow here and this morning was no exception.

 MOST OF THIS MORNING'S PHOTOS WERE TAKEN HERE WALKING ALONG A WIDE PATHWAY BETWEEN THAT HEDGROW AND THE BEANFIELD

After the Conservation area we slowly wandered our way home the long way taking in a few more scenic country roads along the way.  How fortunate I again thought to myself this morning that Pheebs and I have had all these wonderful mornings together over the years.  And, how fortunate in many aspects I have been in these past number of decades.  It is not something I take for granted.

A FEW YELLOW CORN STALK LEAVES ARE BEGINNING TO APPEAR

 OOPS, I THINK MOTHEER NATURE DID A LITTLE OVERWATERING HERE

 A FEW VERY EARLY TOUCHES OF AUTUMN COLOR

Our morning sunshine gave way to cloudy skies and steady rains as a fast moving storm front came ashore at 3 o'clock.  Temperatures dropped and wind gusts became stronger before the whole thing petered out an hour later.  BUT, then the second half of the storm hit packing big winds gusts, pounding rain, thunder and lightning.  Wished I had thought to move the Subaru out of the carport for a free wash.  By 7:15 the storm was finished with us and headed East blustering it's way inland.     

 A NICE CLUSTER OF APPLES

 AND IT IS THE TIME OF SEASON FOR GOLDENROD

Al's Music Box:)) Love's Theme by the Love Unlimited Orchestra from the album,'Rhapsody In White'.  1974

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A man walks into a store and he saw a thermos. The clerk walks up to him and asks, "May I help you with anything?"  "Yea! What is that?"  "Why that's a thermos!"  "What's it do?"  "It keeps things hot and it keeps things cold!"  "I'll take it"  The next day the man goes to work carrying this thermos. His co-workers ask him, "What's that!"  "It's a thermos"  "What's it do?"  "It keeps things hot and it keeps things cold!"  "So whatcha got in it?"  "Two popsicles and a cup of coffee."

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When I was a boy, I had a disease that required me to eat dirt three times a day in order to survive.  It's a good thing my older brother told me about it.

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