End of the Season

Leaves are starting to fall, and autumn chores are well underway at Smith Lake.  Docks are being pulled onto shore, and boats are being readied for their long winter sleep.  No water skiers on the lake now.  The water temperature has cooled considerably to a brisk 40 degrees or so.   There was frost on the rooftops on Saturday  morning!

Bright golds and oranges burst from the far shore as the morning sun touched the autumn leaves still stubbornly clinging to the trees. Soon they, too, will be convinced by the autumn winds to let go and fly through the air in a brief moment of freedom before they tumble to the ground.  Already a soft blanket of leaves covers the ground in the woods.

The sunset is no longer across the lake from us in the west, but way down the shoreline.  It looks like even the sun is moving South for the winter.